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AUTHOR   OF    HTTNTINGTON    FAMILY    MKMOIK    AND    I1ISTOKY    OF   PTAMKOUI). 


*     STAMFOIID.     CONN.: 
(TBLISHEI)     BY     THE     ATTHOH 

1809. 


Entered  according  to  Act  of  Congress,  in  the  year  1869,  by 

ELIJAH  B.  HUNTINGTON, 

lu  the  Clerk's  Office  of  the  District  Court  of  the  United 
States,  for  the  State  of  Connecticut. 


E.   HOYT  &  CO  ,    Printers, 
120  William  St.,  N.  Y. 


DEDICATED   TO    THE    SONS    AND    CITIZENS    OF    STAMFORD,    WHO,    IN 

THK     HOUR     OF     OUB    GRKAT     PERIL,    NOBLY    DEFENDED 

OUT?    NATIONAL     INTEGRITY     AND    HONOR. 


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TABLE   OF   CONTENTS. 


PART  I.— CITIZEN  SERVICE . .  . .  PAGE       9 

PART  II.— MILITARY  SERVICE  . .  37 

THIRD  CONN.  VOL.  REGIMENT 40 

SIXTH 45 

TENTH 59 

SEVENTEENTH 66 

TWENTY-EIGHTH 73 

OTHER  CONN.  REGIMENTS 89 

NEW  YOKK  REGIMENTS 95 

REGIMENTS  OF  OTHER  STATES 100 

VOLUNTEERS  ASSIGNED  TO  NO  REGIMENT  101 

UNITED  STATES  ARMY 102 

CITIZENS  WHO  FURNISHED  SUBSTITUTES _.  107 

DRAFTED  CITIZENS  WHO  FURNISHED  SUBS.  108 

PART   III.— NAVAL    SERVICE....  109 

PART  IV.— OBITUARY 117 

FAMILIES  REPRESENTED  BY  TWO  OR  MORE  SONS  153 

INDEX  TO  NAMES  OF  VOLUNTEERS..  157 


PREFACE. 


This  STAMFORD  SOLDIERS'  MEMORIAL  has  no  higher  aim 
than  to  report  worthily  the  service  which  the  representatives 
of  the  town  rendered  during  the  recent  civil  war.  Believing 
it  to  have  been  an  honorable  and  patriotic  service,  it  seemed 
to  the  author,  due  to  the  men  who  rendered  it,  that  some 
record  of  it  should  be  preserved.  Nor  did  it  seem  less  due 
to  the  credit  of  the  town,  that  so  important  a  feature  of  its 
history  should  be  sketched  while  the  materials  for  it  were 
still  within  our  reach.  Indeed,  the  record  which  follows  is 
but  a  fulfillment  of  the  first  intent  of  the  author,  in  projecting 
the  History  of  the  town,  and  very  appropriately  follows  as 
its  supplement. 

Besides,  a  grateful  people  would  wish  to  rear  some  worthy 
memorial  of  services,  such  as  we  are  here  to  record.  No 
part  of  the  story  of  Stamford  has  a  higher  claim  to  monu- 
mental fame.  And,  surely,  no  monument,  however  costly 
or  durable,  of  granite  or  of  bronze,  no  memorial  hall,  how- 
ever rich  or  apposite,  in  finish  or  in  use,  could  so  well  per- 
petuate such  memories,  as  the  simple  story  of  the  personal 


6  PREFACE. 

services  of  these  our  devoted  and  valiant  citizens.  In  such 
a  story,  if  truthfully  told,  the  monumental  hall  or  shaft  itself, 
if  such  shall  ever  be  reared,  will  find  an  interpreter  which 
future  generations  shall  better  understand. 

In  this  MEMORIAL,  we  have  aimed  to  include  every  name 
which  has  represented  the  town,  in  the  military  and  naval 
service  which  it  is  its  special  aim  to  report.  No  one  of 
these  names  could  well  be  spared  from  the  list.  Every  one 
had  its  value  in  the  great  contribution,  thus  made.  Even 
deserters  had  already,  though  unwittingly,  it  may  have  been, 
contributed  the  influence  of  numbers  to  the  cause,  often, 
when  numbers  have  answered  instead  of  battles. 

The  main  sources  from  which  the  following  record  has 
been  made,  or  verified,  have  been :  "  The  Catalogue  of  the 
Connecticut  Volunteer  Force,"  which  includes  nearly  every 
name  representing  the  town  in  any  Connecticut  regiment  ; 
the  Stamford  Advocate,  whose  correspondence  during  the 
war  was  equally  full  and  minute  ;  the  full  report  of  Capt. 
Charles  H.  Brown,  and  the  private  diary  of  Xoah  W.  Hoyt, 
of  the  28th  Conn,  regiment ;  private  letters  from  several  of 
our  citizens  in  the  service  ;  and  personal  conversations  of 
scores  of  others  of  them  or  their  friends. 

Of  those  whose  printed  correspondence  has  been  of 
service  to  the  author,  he  gratefully  acknowledges  his 


PREFACE.  ( 

obligation  to  the  following  contributors :  J.  A.  Quintard, 
Jas.  W.  Daskam,  Col.  A.  G.  Brady,  Gen.  Wm.  P.  Jones, 
Capt.  Albert  Stevens,  Capt.  B.  L.  Greaves,  Capt.  W.  B. 
Nichols,  Capt.  Chas.  H.  Brown,  Col.  Lorenzo  Meeker,  Dr. 
Wm.  H.  Trowbridge,  Rev.  P.  S.  Evans,  Chas.  A.  Weed, 
Sergt.  H.  M.  Capper,  Lieut.  Edgar  Hoyt,  Sergt.  Chas.  W. 
Knapp,  Elbert  Ayres,  D.  C.  Comstock,  jr.,  "  C.  PI.  C.,"  and 
"  J.  H.  K.,"  28th  Conn., "  J.  A.  H.,"  4th  Conn.,  "  M.  W.  T.," 
6th  Conn.,  "  Leinad,"  10th  Conn.,  and  "  W.  C.  G.,'1  U.  S. 
Steamer  Rescue. 

To  CIIAKLES  W.  WAKDWELL,  ESQ.,  another  son  of  the 
town,  my  hearty  thanks  are  also  due,  for  his  generous  and 
freely  offered  contribution  towards  the  expense  of  publishing 
this  MEMORIAL. 

For  the  exceedingly  tasteful  typographical  execution  of 
the  work,  our  readers  are  indebted  to  Lieut.  Edgar  Hoyt,  of 
the  firm  of  E.  Hoyt  &  Co.,  New  York  City, — himself  a  son 
and  citizen  soldier  of  the  town  ;  and  for  the  occasional  mis- 
takes detected  on  these  pages,  there  will  be  found  abundant 
compensation  in  the  general  accuracy  arid  beauty  of  the  work. 

The  author  in  bringing  these  pleasant  labors  of  months  to 
an  end  would  here  express  his  heartiest  thanks  to  the  many 
personal  friends,  whose  words  of  kindly  encouragement  have 
been  a  frequent  benediction  on  his  work.  Never,  altogether 


PREFACE. 

unrewarded,  is  any  toil  which  draws  its  inspiration  from  the 
sympathy  of  such  friends.  To  them,  therefore,  and  to  all 
the  good  citizens  of  the  town,  who  share  in  the  honor  of 
every  record  which  honors  the  town  itself,  these  humble 
contributions  to  its  history  and  patriotism  are  most  grate- 
fully commended  by  the  author. 

Stamford,  April,  1869. 


PART    FIRST. 


CITIZEN  SERVICE 


CITIZEN   SERVICE. 


On  the  election  of  ABRAHAM  LINCOLN,  President  of  the 
United  States,  in  November,  1860,  a  portion  of  the  party 
which  had  opposed  him,  at  once  renounced  allegiance  to 
the  Government,  of  which  he  was  the  chief  executive,  elect ; 
and  forthwith  entered  on  a  course  of  measures  to  establish 
their  independence.  In  this  emergency,  Governor  "William 
A.  Buckingham,  of  Connecticut,  sought  to  put  the  State 
into  a  posture  of  successful  resistance,  and  called  for  volun- 
teers to  fill  up  the  ranks  of  our  long  unused  militia.  In  re- 
sponse to  this  call,  through  the  Adjutant-General  of  the 
State,  Lorenzo  Meeker,  then  captain  of  the  Stamford  Light 
Guards,  issued  an  invitation  in  the  Advocate,  of  January  25, 
1861,  to  any  of  our  citizens  who  wished  to  enlist,  to  meet 
him  for  that  purpose,  on  the  evening  of  February  1st,  follow- 
ing. And  this  is  the  first  record  furnished  in  Stamford, 
having  reference  to  the  recent  war.  Yet  it  is  hardly  proba- 
ble that  a  single  citizen  of  the  town,  had  even  a  faint  idea  that 
the  Stamford  Light  Guards,  or  any  other  military  company, 
would  ever  be  called  from  the  town  into  an  actual  conflict  of 
arms. 

But  when  on  the  12th  of  April,  1861,  organized  secession- 
ists, by  an  ACT  OF  WAK,  appealed  to  arms,  in  assertion  of 
their  claims,  the  citizens  of  Stamford,  at  once,  and  unani- 
mously, resolved  to  stand  by  the  Government  which  they 
had  sworn  to  defend. 


12  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS'    MEMORIAL. 

Even  thoso  who  had  most  vigorously  opposed  the  election 
of  President  Lincoln,  with  commendable  zeal  now  rallied 
with  his  supporters  to  the  defense  of  his  authority.  We 
agreed  in  the  theory,  that  he  was  the  nation's  executive,  and 
that  his  first  duty  as  well  as  ours,  was  now  to  defend  the  na- 
tion's life. 

This  universal  sentiment  of  the  citizens  was  well  ex- 
pressed by  one  of  the  sons  of  the  town,  then  in  the  city,  but 
whose  frequent  letters  in  our  local  paper  were  to  do  good  ser- 
vice for  the  Union  cause  during  the  conflict  into  which  we 
had  been  plunged.  On  the  17th  of  the  same  month,  which 
heard  the  tocsin  of  war  sounding  from  rebel  guns  at  Fort 
ISumpter,  his  stirring  words  were,  and  we  had  no  one  here  who 
ventured  or  even  wished  to  join  issue  with  him,  "  American 
soldiers  have  been  driven  from  an  American  fort,  and  the 
American  flag  has  been  displaced  by  a  rebel  ensign.  The 
North  has  no  war  to  wage  with  the  Soutli ;  but  it  has  a 
war  to  wage  against  treason  and  rebellion.  We  have  bat 
one  party  among  us." 

Our  editor,  William  S.  Campbell,  Esq.,  in  the  same  issue 
from  which  we  have  just  quoted,  said  what  every  reader  felt 
was  the  exact  truth  :  "  Already  party  differences  are  forgotten. 
The  North  is  consolidating  its  forces,  and  not  a  man  with  a 
drop  of  patriotic  blood  in  his  veins  but  rallies  to  the  aid  of 
his  country.  One  thing  is  certain,  the  Government  will  be 
sustained,  the  call  for  volunteers  responded  to  with  loyal  en- 
thusiasm, and  whatever  be  the  issue  of  the  struggle  as  re- 
gards the  South,  the  North  will  come  out  of  it  with  honor 
untarnished,  and  the  Stars  and  Stripes  will  continue  to  wave 
over  a  free  and  united  people." 

One  week  later,  Mr.  Campbell  closed  a  brief  but  earnest 
editorial  in  the  same  clear,  ringing  tones — no  uncertain 
sound :  "  Let  treason  be  rebuked,  rebellion  suppressed — 


CITIZEN    SERVICE.  13 

that  is  the  present  duty."  The  same  issue  of  the  Advocate 
gives  us  another  bracing  letter  from  the  New  York  corres- 
pondent, already  quoted,  whose  signature  "Q"  indicated 
the  French  Huguenot  origin  of  the  earnest  loyalty  which  he 
expressed  so  well.  In  this  letter  he  says  :  "  that  awful  as 
civil  war  could  be,  the  people  would  gladly  welcome  its  evils, 
rather  than  submit  to  a  disruption  of  the  Government,  and 
a  tame  capitulation  to  treason/' 

Such  was  plainly  on  the  opening  of  this  struggle,  the  pre- 
vailing sentiment  of  both  political  parties  in  Stamford.  Flags 
were  seen  floating  everywhere  in  the  town — hundreds  of 
them,  testifying  to  this  sentiment  of  loyalty.  Conspicuous 
among  them  was  the  beautiful  one  floating  over  our  Concert 
Hall ;  and  our  cannon  thundered  its  greeting  to  the  summons 
with  which  it  stirred  every  patriotic  heart. 

The  following,  from  our  local  paper,  is  but  a  characteristic 
record  of  the  times  ;  and  it  shows  as  many  others  which  follow 
will  show,  how  completely,  for  the  time  being,  all  party  fuel- 
ing had  been  sunk  in  the  popular  anxiety  for  the  perpetuity 
of  the  Government  of  these  States  :  "  To  the  Brothers  Sco- 
field  and  Messrs.  A.  G.  Clark  &  Co.,  belonps  the  credit  of 
designing,  and  to  the  ladies  is  due  the  honor  of  making  this 
flag  of  our  country." 

The  tocsin  of  war  at  Sumpter,  had  been  too  distinct  to  be 
mistaken.  Whatever  the  old  political  threats  had  meant, 
this  left  no  alternative  for  the  people  ;  they  must  now  either 
defend  the  Union  which  they  had  established,  or  consent  to 
be  broken  up. 

It  was  well  for  us,  that  at  the  first,  both  the  old  political 
parties  at  the  North  heard  and  heeded  the  call  thus  made  upon 
them;  and  that  for  months  but  one  sentiment  found  expres- 
sion on  the  subject  of  the  war.  To  fight  was  the  only  ac- 
knowledged duty  of  the  hour. 


14  STAMFORD   SOLDIERS'    MEMORIAL. 

On  the  call  of  the  President  for  volunteers,  April  15, 1861, 
Stamford  was  stirred,  probably  as  never  before.  .  A  meeting 
of  the  citizens  was  called  for  the  following  Saturday  evening, 
to  aid  in  raising  men  and  means  for  the  war.  Governor 
William  T.  Minor  was  called  to  preside,  and  in  a  few  earnest 
words,  he  set  forth  the  nature  of  the  crisis,  and  the  need  for 
action.  John  Davenport,  a  great  grandson  of  that  Hon. 
Abraham  Davenport,  whose  name  and  influence  were  so 
marked  in  our  revolutionary  period,  was  chosen  Secretary. 
Thomas  G.  Eitch,  Esq.,  Kev.  P.  S.  Evans,  H.  F.  Osborn, 
Rev.  E.  B.  Huntington,  Jacob  Kreig,  G.  B.  Glendining, 
Lorenzo  Meeker,  and  James  Betts,  addressed  the  meeting  in 
support  of  the  most  vigorous  measures. 

Volunteering  had  already  commenced.  Headed  by  two  of 
our  young  men,  Thedore  Miller  and  Theodore  Delcroix,  the 
list  had  already  grown  to  about  thirty  names.  When  these 
names  were  read  to  the  meeting,  amid  the  acclamations  of 
the  crowded  assembly,  the  chairman  called  out  redoubled 
acclamations,  by  announcing  the  gift  of  a  drum  to  them 
from  our  townsman  William  P.  Jones,  Esq.,  who  had  already 
tendered  his  services  to  the  President. 

At  this  meeting  a  committee  was  appointed  to  raise  funds, 
consisting  of  Hon.  James  H.  Hoyt,  Isaac  Quintard,  Charles 
Brown,  William  Skiddy  and  Albert  Seely.  Four  thousand 
and  five  hundred  dollars  were  promptly  pledged  to  the  cause 
and  it  was  now  settled,  beyond  a  doubt,  that  if  called  upon, 
the  Stamford  people  would  be  found  ready,  with  whatever 
ability  they  had,  to  defend  the  honor  and  integrity  of  our  na- 
tional life. 

Provision  was  now  made  for  raising  before  the  people 
a  National  Flag,  as  a  perpetual  symbol  of  the  loyalty 
of  our  citizens.  The  following  response  from  one  of 
our  honored  citizens  is  a  faithful  witness  to  the  sentiment 


CITIZEN    SERVICE.  15 

of  the  whole  community,  and  deserves   its  record  in   our 
MEMORIAL. 

STAMFORD,  Conn.,  April  23,  1861. 

MY  FRIENDS  OF  THE  UNION  : — I  am  informed  that  a 
national  flag-staff  is  to  be  erected  in  the  centre  of  the  village 
of  Stamford,  and  having  in  my  possession  one  of  the  trophies 
gained  by  our  citizen  army,  under  the  gallant  Scott,  in  the 
Mexican  war,  I  now  offer  it  with  pleasure  and  pride.  This 
truck,  from  the  flag-staff  off  the  castle  at  Vera  Cruz — may 
it  be  placed  on  the  staff  to  which  the  stars  and  stripes  are  to 
be  hoisted  under  the  wings  of  the  American  eagle,  trusting 
that  no  other  flag  may  ever  be  raised  on  this  staff  until  we 
are  exterminated. 

Your  fellow-countryman, 

WILLIAM  SKIDDY. 

The  writer  of  the  above  gallant  offer  had  the  pleasure  on 
the  following  Fourth  of  July,  of  raising  with  his  own  hands, 
the  National  Flag  to  its  place  in  the  center  of  the  village. 

Meanwhile  the  work  of  raising  men  was  going  on.  By 
Monday,  April  28th,  sixteen  days  from  the  first  traitor  shot 
against  Sumpter,  our  first  company,  numbering  thirty-nine 
of  our  citizens,  summoned  from  their  successful  vocations, 
were  pledged  and  ready  for  any  service,  to  which  the  issues  of 
the  contest  might  lead  them.  They  had  counted  the  cost 
and  were  already  in  the  lists.  The  roll-call  had  already 
gathered  them,  each  at  his  post,  for  their  departure  for  the 
field.  Four  of  their  number,  Wells  Allis,  Theodore  Miller, 
Theodore  Delcroix  and  Peter  Rooney  had  been  appointed 
a  committee  to  enroll  other  men  as  volunteers  for  the  war, 
and  they  had  rendered  good  service  in  this  work. 

It  was  an  occasion  of  no  ordinary  interest  which  called  our 
citizens  to  this  first  parting  with  their  sons  and  neighbors. 
Who  can  tell  the  feelings  which  stirred  in  human  affec- 


16  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS5    MEMORIAL. 

tions,  at  that  morning  hour.  There  were  not  wanting 
womanly  or  manly  tears,  to  testify  to  the  deep  feeling  which 
ruled.  The  company  were  addressed  in  a  brief  but  telling 
speech  by  Rev.  P.  S.  Evans,  of  the  Baptist  church,  and  were 
then  commended  to  the  protection  of  the  God  of  battles,  in  a 
prayer  by  Rev.  Mr.  Weed,  of  the  Methodist  church.  Who 
those  men  were,  our  roll  of  honor,  in  Company  F,  3d  Con- 
necticut Volunteers,  will  tell ;  and  what  service  they  ren- 
dered, our  subsequent  record  of  the  several  companies  they 
represented  will  show. 

During  the  enlistment  of  this  first  company,  Captain 
Lorenzo  Meeker,  already  mentioned  as  connected  with  our 
local  militia,  and  who  was  accounted  an  officer  of  especial 
merit  in  military  tactics,  and  a  thorough  master  of  the  drill, 
was  also  busy  in  recruiting  another  company  of  our  citizens 
for  any  call  which  might  be  made  upon  them.  He  soon 
succeeded  in  filling  up  the  company,  and  early  in  May  went 
to  Hartford  to  offer  their  services  to  the  Government.  They 
were  not  accepted  for  either  of  the  regiments  then  being  or- 
ganized, because  they  would  not  accept  the  conditions  on 
which  the  officers  were  to  be  appointed.  Many  of  them  en- 
listed singly  into  other  regiments  of  the  State,  or  of  New 
York  ;  but  with  his  numbers  kept  up,  on  the  5th  of  Septem- 
ber, the  Captain  had  the  satisfaction  of  being  mustered  in,  as 
Company  I),  of  the  Sixth  Connecticut  Volunteers,  where 
their  noble  record  will  be  found. 

At  the  same  time  we  were  enrollino;  others  of  our  citizens 

o 

in  Company  G,  of  the  Tenth  Connecticut  Volunteers,  for 
which  we  furnished,  before  the  war  closed,  several  excellent 
names.  And  their  record,  also,  in  its  appropriate  place,  will 
show  some  of  the  most  effective  service  of  the  war. 

To  meet  the  necessary  expenses  of  these  war  measures,  a 
special  town  meeting  was  called  for  May  4th,  on  the  request 


CITIZEN    SERVICE. 


of  about  fifty  citizens  of  the  town,  headed  by  William  Skiddy, 
Joseph  D.  Warren  and  James  H.  Olmstead,  Esq. 

Of  this  meeting,  held  in  the  Town  Hall,  Wm.  H.  Holly, 
Esq.,  was  chosen  Chairman.  After  an  earnest  plea  for 
prompt  measures  to  supply  the  needed  sinews  of  the  war 
now  begun,  Mr.  Holly  introduced  among  others,  the  follow- 
ing resolution.  The  preamble  had  set  forth,  that  the  chief 
Executive  of  the  State,  in  response  to  the  President's  call  for 
75,000  men,  had  issued  his  call  upon  the  towns  for  volunteers  ; 
and  that  "many  of  our  relations,  friends  and  citizens  have 
responded  to  the  call,  having  gone  forth  to  bear  arms  in 
vindication  of  our  honor  and  integrity  as  a  nation — therefore, 

"  Resolved,  By  the  inhabitants  of  the  towrn  of  Stamford, 
in  special  town  meeting,  legally  warned  and  assembled  on 
this  4th  day  of  May,  1861,  that  a  tax  of  one  and  a  half  mills 
on  the  dollar,  of  the  assessment  list  of  this  town  last  perfected, 
be  and  is  hereby  levied,  to  be  forthwith  collected  and  paid 
into  the  Treasury  of  this  town,  to  constitute  a  fund  to  defray 
the  expenses  in  the  foregoing  preamble  ;  also  to  provide 
pecuniary  aid  and'relief  to  the  families  of  such  volunteers  as 
have  gone  or  may  go  forth  in  company  or  companies  organized 
in  this  town,  during  the  absence  of  such  volunteers." 

Stephen  1>.  Provost,  Andrew  Perry,  Jno.  M.  Hall,  Josiah 
Smith  and  William  Todd  were  a  committee  to  audit  the  bills 
of  expense  already  incurred,  and  to  dispense  aid  to  the  fami- 
lies of  our  volunteers  ;  to  each  man's  wife  three  dollars  per 
week,  to  each  child  under  fifteen  years  one  dollar,  and  to  each 
widowed  mother  who  is  depending  on  such  volunteer  for  her 
support  three  dollars;  and  the  committee  were  authorized 
at  their  discretion,  to  increase  these  amounts  to  such  sums  as 
they  deemed  proper,  in  case  of  sickness  or  other  urgent 
necessity.  The  resolution,  after  brief  discussion,  was  unani- 
mously passed, 
c 


18  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS'    MEMORIAL. 

Early  May  of  this  year  finds  also  the  women  of  Stamford 
earnestly  at  work  for  the  comfort  of  our  "  Boys  in  Blue." 
Every  church  became  alive  with  zeal  to  equal  every  other 
church  in  this  pressing  duty  of  the  hour.  And  when  it  was 
found  probable  that  for  many  months  to  come,  perhaps  for 
years,  such  organizations  would  be  needed,  the  mothers  and 
sisters  of  the  town  showed  themselves  ready  for  the 
consecration.  One  of  their  first  offerings  to  the  cause  was 
a  banner  to  lead  our  boys  of  Company  F,  Third  Connecticut 
Volunteers. 

Citizens  who  could  not  go  to  the  field,  organized  them- 
selves into  Home  Guards,  and,  evening  after  evening,  sub- 
mitted to  such  drill  as  might  possibly  help  them  in  some 
future  call  of  the  country. 

Even  our  children  caught  the  spirit  of  the  times.  Our 
Graded  School  swung  to  the  breeze  the  National  Flag,  one 
of  the  largest  in  town,  to  the  huzzas  of  a  multitude  of  chil- 
dren voices.  Right  heartily  they  sang  the  Star  Spangled 
Banner,  and  without  reservation  pledged  themselves  to  an 
undying  patriotism  in  response  to  the  earnest  words  of  Rev. 
Mr.  Evans,  who  addressed  them. 

How  faithful  these  children  were,  is  seen  in  a  little  inci- 
dent, occurring  in  the  early  winter  of  1861.  A  hint  had 
been  given  them  that  our  soldiers  needed  writing  materials. 
The  school  children  extemporized  a  box  of  the  needed  arti- 
cles ;  and  when  opened  for  the  use  of  the  company,  it  was 
found  to  contain  eighty-three  quires  of  paper,  seventy-five 
packages  of  envelopes,  two  hundred  lead  pencils,  with  rub- 
bers, postage  stamps,  tracts  and  books.  And  on  the  fly-leaf 
of  a  neat  gilt  testament,  some  one  of  these  children  of  the 
town,  thus  early  comprehending  at  a  glance  the  "  situation," 
had  written — "  Don't  return  fugitives  to  their  cruel  masters." 

So  general  was  the  interest  in  these  warlike  preparations, 


CITIZEN    SERVICE.  19 

when  the  national  holiday  of  1861  came.  The  National 
Festival  of  this  year  in  Stamford  is  ever  to  be  remembered 
for  the  unanimity  with  which  our  citizens  re-consecrated 
themselves  to  the  Union  cause.  The  committee  of  arrange- 
ments for  the  celebration  were  the  Hon.  M.  F.  Merritt,  Wm. 
P.  Jones,  G.  K.  Hiker,  J.  A.  Candee,  James  H.  Olm- 
stead,  Edwin  Bishop,  James  W.  Daskam,  Andrew  Perry,  and 
Samuel  Lockwood.  Mr.  Merritt  called  the  meeting  to 
order,  and  Hon.  Charles  Hawley  was  appointed  president. 
Hon.  William  T.  Minor.  Hon.  Truman  Smith,  Stephen  B. 
Provost,  Hon.  James  H.  Hoyt,  William  Skiddy,  Robert 
Swartwout,  J.  W.  Hubbard,  Joseph  B.  Hoyt,  William  R.  Fos- 
dick,  J.  W.  Leeds,  Charles  Pitt,  and  Theodore  J.  Daskam, 
vice-president?.  Spirited  addresses  were  made  by  the  Hon. 
Charles  Hawley,  Rev.  William  C.  Hoyt,  Hon.  Stewart  L. 
Woodford,  Rev.  R.  R.  Booth,  and  Rev.  P.  S.  Evans.  A 
patriotic  poem  also  was  read  by  Rev.  Walter  Mitchell ;  and 
the  Star  Spangled  Banner  was  sung  with  fine  effect  by  Theo- 
dore Lockwood,  Sands  Seely,  and  Isaac  Ward  well,  the  entire 
audience  joining  in  the  chorus.  It  is  hardly  asserting  too 
much,  to  say,  that  at  the  closing  hour  of  these  services,  the 
vote  would  have  been  unanimous  which  should  have  pledged 
every  man  and  every  dollar  of  the  town  to  the  defense  of 
the  Nation's  perpetual  unity. 

The  following  business  item  tells  its  story  of  the  sentiment 
held  by  our  business  men,  as  to  the  nature  and  claims  of  the 
crisis  which  had  now  come.  It  is  found  in  the  Advocate  of 
Sept.  27,  1861,  and  thus  testifies:  "Books  for  subscription 
to  the  National  Loan  were  opened  on  Tuesday  in  this  place 
by  John  W.  Leeds,  Esq.,  agent  for  the  government,  and  in 
two  days  $34,000  were  subscribed.  This  is  in  addition  to 
subscription  heretofore  made  by  the  Stamford  Bank  $65,000 
and  the  Savings  Bank  for  $45,000." 


20  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS5    MEMORIAL. 

Such  earnestness  on  the  part  of  the  people  and  such  readi- 
ness to  furnish  the  sinews  of  war,  would  seem  to  argue  the 
speediest  suppression  of  any  rebellion  which  could  threaten 
them.  But  we  found  ourselves  surprised  by  an  enemy  to 
whom  we  had  entrusted  our  readiest  munitions  of  defense. 
Those  whom  we  had  specially  educated  for  war,  were  largely 
the  leaders  of  the  secession  camp.  The  Army  of  the  Union 
was  mainly  under  the  generals  of  treason.  The  I*savy 
had  been  dispersed  or  was  stealthily  seized.  From  our 
highest  seats  of  national  authority,  the  men  who  knew  all 
our  exposure  had  gone  forth  with  all  the  influence  which  we 
had  given  them  during  their  participation  in  the  public  ser- 
vice, to  wield  their  knowledge  and  influence  for  traitors. 
Thus  taken  at  disadvantage,  we  made  for  months  and  years 
even,  but  sorry  headway  against  the  formidable  preparations 
which  for  years  had  been  gathering  against  us. 

But  these  months  furnished  the  needed  opportunities  for 
our  trial.  We  were  sounding  the  depths  of  the  fell  pur- 
pose which  had  seized  upon  the  leaders  of  this  great  treason. 
And,  though,  at  times,  everything  seemed  to  go  against  us, 
we  were  still  held  together  until  the  day  for  our  triumph 
should  dawn. 

Already  we  had  sent  to  the  front  more  men  than  the  most 
fearful  of  us  had  ever  predicted  we  should  need.  Already 
we  had  supplied  more  money  than  we  had  supposed  it  within 
our  pecuniary  possibilities  to  spare.  And  yet,  whenever 
our  exposed  men  at  the  front  gave  out,  whenever  comfort- 
able subsistence  for  them  was  wanting,  we  set  ourselves  to 
tind  the  men  and  to  supply  the  means. 

In  the  summer  of  1862,  the  government  called  for  300,000 
more  men.  The  following  record  will  show  in  what  spirit 
the  call  was  met : 

'"  The  citizens  of  Stamford  and  vicinity  of  all  parties  who 


CITIZEN    SERVICE.  21 

are  for  supporting  the  government  in  its  prosecution  of  the 
war  against  treason  and  rebellion,  and  also  for  devising  ways 
and  means  for  furnishing  our  quota  of  300,000  men  called 
for  by  the  President,  are  requested  to  meet  at  Seely's  Hall 
on  Friday  (this)  evening,  July  18th,  1862,  at  seven  and  half 
o'clock,  to  proffer  such  aid  to  the  government  as  may  be 
within  our  power. 

"  Wm.  T.  Minor,  J.  B.  Ferris,  A.  N.  Holly,  Jas.  H.  Olm- 
stead,  Jas.  L.  Lockwood,  B.  J.  D  ask  am,  Andrew  Perry,  A. 
G.  Clark,  David  H.  Clark,  Chas.  Holly,  Wm.  S.  Campbell, 
Chauncey  Ayres,  A.  G.  Brady  and  Albert  Seely." 

A  large  assembly  gathered  in  response  to  this  call  and 
Oliver  Hoyt  was  called  to  preside.  Addresses  were  made 
by  Rev.  H.  K.  Bartlett  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  Rev. 
Mr.  Cox  a  Methodist  clergyman  of  St.  Louis,  and  Hon. 
Stewart  L.  Woodford  who  had  just  left  his  residence  in 
Stamford  for  one  in  New  York.  Under  the  effective  ap- 
peals made  in  their  addresses  a  large  number  of  volunteers 
responded.  Provision  was  made  for  holding  another  meet- 
ing on  Thursday  of  the  following  week.  According  to  this 
announcement,  an  immense  meeting  of  our  citizens  of  both 
sexes  gathered  in  Seely's  Hall,  July  24th,  1862. 

George  Elder,  Esq.,  was  called  to  preside,  with  the  follow- 
ing list  of  vice-presidents  :  Charles  Hawley,  Truman  Smith, 
A.  X.  Holly,  George  A.  Hoyt,  S.  B.  Provost,  William  T. 
Minor,  Oliver  Hoyt,  William  Skiddy,  Welles  R.  Ritch,  Isaac 
Quintard,  Joseph  B.  Hoyt,  Theodore  Davenport,  John  Fer- 
guson, Smith  Weed,  Charles  Williams,  H.  K.  Skelding, 
John  B.  Reed,  Charles  Pitt,  J.  B.  Ferris,  E.  P.  Whitney, 
Thomas  Crane,  Charles  lEendrie,  William  R.  Fosdick,  Chas. 
H.  Starr,  Morgan  Morgans,  James  II.  Hoyt,  James  B.  Sco- 
field,  Oliver  Scotield,  Thomas  Gardner,  Seymour  Hoyt,  N. 
E.  Adams,  J.  H.  Carrington,  J.  W.  Hubbard,  J.  I).  Weeks, 


22  8TAMFOKD    SOLDIERS5    MEMORIAL. 

Alfred  Hoyt,  S.  B.  Thompson,  T.  S.  Hall,  J.  B.  Knapp,  G. 
F.  Nesbitt,  Lyman  Lockwood,  John  Hecker,  and  Charles 
H.  Scofield: 

D.  H.  Clark,  F.  K.  Leeds,  George  E.  Scofield  and  F.  M. 
Hawley,  Secretaries. 

Earnest  addresses  were  made,  all  of  them  having  the  same 
unmistakable  ring  of  loyalty  to  the  Union  and  death  to  trea- 
son, by  Hon.  William  T.  Minor,  Rev.  Walter  Mitchell,  Col. 
William  H.  Noble,  of  Bridgeport,  Thomas  G.  Hitch,  Esq., 
and  James  H.  Olmstead,  Esq.  In  response  to  the  call  thus 
made  upon  the  citizens  by  representatives  of  both  political 
parties,  $2,500  were  promptly  pledged,  in  sums  ranging 
from  $500,  pledged  by  the  Stamford  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany, down  to  $5.  This  sum  was  increased  to  $3,000  during 
the  following  week. 

The  following  letter  from  the  Advocate  of  August  13, 
1862,  shows  how  successful  we  had  been  in'  raising  men  as 
well  as  means.  Allen  G.  Brady,  Esq.,  referred  to  in  the 
letter,  formerly  from  Torrington,  but  at  this  date  in  business 
here,  had  been  lieutenant-cplonel  in  the  Third  Connecticut 
Volunteers,  and  had  been  authorized  by  Governor  Bucking- 
ham to  raise  a  company  of  volunteers  in  Stamford. 

"  EDITOR  OF  THE  ADVOCATE  : — I  send  herewith  a  list  of  the 
volunteer  company  which  will  leave  to-day  for  camp  at 
Bridgeport.  It  is  a  list  of  which  we  may  well  be  proud. 
The  first  name  was  entered  on  the  18th  of  last  month,  and 
the  last  on  the  llth  inst.,  making  109  names  enrolled  in 
twenty-four  days. 

Much  gratitude  is  due  from  Stamford  to  the  chief  agent  in 
gathering  so  quickly  such  a  company.  Few  men  could  have 
succeeded  in  enrolling  them  so  soon,  and  fewer  still  in  organ- 
izing and  so  effectively  drilling  them.  All  honor  to 
Colonel  Brady,  who  consented  to  put  himself  at  their  head." 


CITIZEN    SERVICE.  23 

Much  credit  was  also  due  to  the  efficient  aid  given  to  Col. 
Brady  in  raising  this  company,  by  his  lieutenants,  Charles 
A.  Hobby  and  Marcus  Waterbury,  both  of  whom  were  after- 
wards to  render  still  more  signal  service  in  the  field. 

An  immense  concourse  of  citizens  gathered  at  one  o'clock 
in  front  of  Seely's  Hall,  for  their  farewell  and  benedictions 
to  these  citizens  of  the  town.  Rev.  Walter  Mitchell,  in 
prayer  commended  them  to  the  God  of  battles,  and  they 
started  on  the  campaign,  from  which  some  of  them  were  not 
to  return.  Our  company  lists  will  report  their  special  ser- 
vice for  the  town  they  represented. 

At  the  same  time,  Francis  It.  Leeds,  recently  cashier  of  the 
Stamford  Bank,  was  authorized  to  recruit  a  company.  His 
popularity  with  our  business  men,  and  our  young  men  espe- 
cially, gave  him  great  advantage.  A  meeting  was  held  on 
the  15th,  at  which  the  Hon.  James  C.  Loomis,  of  Bridgeport, 
Cyrus  Northrop,  now  Professor  in  Yale  College,  and  Mr. 
Leeds,  addressed  the  citizens.  By  the  29th,  Mr.  Leeds  was 
able  to  report  his  company  more  than  full.  One  hundred 
and  ten  of  our  young  men  had  enrolled  themselves  under  his 
standard  and  were  waiting  for  orders. 

New  and  pressing  appeals  came  now,  daily,  for  help.  The 
Seventeenth  Connecticut  were  in  need  of  a  Chaplain's  tent. 
Under  the  appeals  of  Rev.  Mr.  Evans,  the  Stamford  citizens 
promptly  subscribed  one-half  the  funds  needed  for  this  tent 
— a  part  of  the  funds  being  the  offerings  of  the  children  of 
our  schools. 

Report  reaches  us  of  the  arrival  of  1,500  Unoin  soldiers 
disabled,  at  David's  Island,  and  forthwith  our  Soldiers'  Aid 
Society,  which  has  already  been  efficiently  at  work  for  a  year, 
in  furnishing  clothing  and  other  things  needful  for  the  health 
and  comfort  of  our  "  soldier  boys,1'  are  all  over  town,  gather- 
ing what  is  most  wanted  by  the  poor  stricken  ones  in  IIos- 


24:  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS5    MEMORIAL. 

pital ;  and  they  not  only  collect  the  needed  funds  and  pre- 
pare the  needed  restoratives  and  cordials  for  the  wounded 
men,  but  volunteer  their  services,  also,  in  personal  ministry 
of  attention  and  care. 

On  Wednesday,  Sept.  3d,  1862,  we  had  a  repetition  of  the 
scenes  of  April  28th,  1861.  Everybody  was  out  to  bid  God- 
speed to  captain  Leeds  and  his  fine  company  of  Stamford 
sons.  The  captain  had  already  been  presented  with  a  beau- 
tiful sword  by  his  friend,  James  Morsell,  Esq.  His  first 
lieutenant,  Charles  H.  Brown,  had  also  been  taken  quite  by 
surprise  on  the  preceding  Saturday  evening,  at  an  extem- 
porized meeting  of  his  friends.  The  Hon.  M.  F.  Merritt, 
their  chairman,  announced  that  the  friends  of  the  lieutenant 
had  purchased  an  elegant  sword  as  their  tribute  to  his 
patriotism,  and  called  upon  Jas.  H.  Olmstead,  Esq.,  to  make 
the  presentation.  In  his  brief  yet  pertinent  speech,  Mr.  Olm- 
stead said :  u  I  call  upon  you,  then,  to  receive  this  sword  as 
a  free  will  offering  of  your  friends.  Take  it  as  such,  and  may 
it  be  the  pen  with  which  you  shall  write  your  name  upon  the 
pages  of  your  country's  history."  "  Our  prayers  shall  be, 
that  after  the  tramp  of  war  shall  be  ended,  and  our  Union 
again  restored,  God  in  his  infinite  mercy  will  return  you 
again  to  the  bosom  of  your  friends,  not  as  a  lieutenant,  but 
bearing  a  higher  title,  well  earned  and  merited  by  your 
noble  acts  while  battling  for  the  salvation  of  your  country." 

The  second  lieutenant,  Philip  Lever,  had  also  been  pre- 
sented with  a  sword  from  his  friends,  and  with  a  seven- 
shooter,  by  Mr.  Judd  of  the  Phoenix  Company.  At  the  same 
time  with  the  enrollment  of  Mr.  Leeds'  company,  Cyrus 
D.  Jones,  Esq.,  another  of  our  townsmen,  who  had  just  suc- 
cessfully established  himself  in  business  on  High  Ridge, 
resolved  to  take  part  also  in  the  service,  and  was  authorized 
by  the  Governor  to  raise  another  company. 


CITIZEN    SERVICE.  25 

On  the  same  day  which  witnessed  the  departure  of  cap- 
tain Leeds'  company,  a  special  town  meeting  was  held  to 
provide  for  the  needed  quota  now  due  from  Stamford.  The 
meeting  voted  to  borrow  $10,000,  and  to  give  $100  bounty 
to  all  who  should  volunteer  for  Mr.  Jones'  company.  Daily 
meetings  were  now  held  in  the  village,  at  the  Turn  of  the 
River,  and  at  High  and  Long  Ridges,  to  fill  up  the  quota. 
In  the  meeting  called  for  Wednesday  morning  Sept.  10th, 
Wm.  H.  Holly,  Esq.,  announced  that  he  was  authorized  by 
a  responsible  gentleman  to  add  ten  dollars  apiece  to  the 
bounty  of  the  next  ten  men  who  would  enlist.  Oliver  Hoyt 
added  five  dollars  to  the  ten  just  offered,  and  five  more  for 
each  additional  man  who  should  enlist,  and  the  same  for  those 
who  had  been  already  sworn  in.  In  the  afternoon,  Mr. 
George  Elder  and  Oliver  Hoyt  pledged  themselves  to  give 
twenty-five  dollars  additional  bounty  to  every  man  in  the 
company. 

Among  the  volunteers  who  now  came  forward  was  Nelson 
B.  Bennet,  and  his  words  as  wrell  as  his  example  were  effec- 
tive pleas  for  more  volunteers.  And  so,  under  these  persua- 
sive calls  the  work  of  recruiting  rapidly  advanced.  On  the 
15th  of  the  month  the  company  of  Mr.  Jones  was  filled  up, 
and  ready  for  starting  for  their  rendezvous  in  New  Haven. 

After  a  collation  at  Seely's  Hall  they  were  escorted,  as  the 
preceding  companies  had  been,  to  the  depot ;  as  was  natural 
the  interest  of  the  community  had  risen,  as  the  pressure  of 
the  call  from  the  government  increased ;  so  that  a  larger  num- 
ber of  our  citizens  were  present  to  witness  the  departure  of 
this  la^t  company  raised  in  the  town,  than  at  any  previous 
departure. 

A  singular  service  for  Stamford  was  held  Sunday  evening, 
Sept.  21,  1862,  in  the  Methodist  Church  of  the  village.  The 

Sundav  School  of  the  church  had  gathered  in  special  concert 

"  n 


26  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS5    MEMORIAL. 

to  present  one  of  their  number,  Captain  C.  D.  Jones,  with  a 
sword.  The  presentation  was  made  in  an  appropriate  speech 
by  Oliver  Hoyt,  Esq.,  the  Superintendent. 

While  Capt.  Leeds'  company  were  still  in  camp  in  New 
Haven,  news  reached  the  Governor,  then  in  that  city,  that 
there  had  been  riotous  opposition  to  the  draft  in  Fairfield. 
The  Governor  promptly  detailed  Capt.  Leeds'  company  to 
suppress  the  riot.  The  captain  happened  to  be  absent  from 
the  city  when  the  orders  reached  the  camp,  but  though  the 
company  had  then  been  two  hours  on  drill,  under  their  lieu- 
tenants, they  started  at  once  for  the  scene  of  the  riot,  cor- 
poral Weed  rising  from  a  sick  bed  to  join  them,  thus  early 
showing  their  readiness  for  any  service  to  which  they  might 
be  called. 

This  was  the  last  company  formally  raised  in  the  town, 
though  down  to  the  end  of  the  war,  men  were  constantly  re- 
cruited here.  Though  once  during  the  war,  resort  was  had 
to  drafting  to  supply  the  men  we  needed,  by  October, 
1864,  we  had  exceeded  the  demands  of  the  general  govern- 
ment. While  the  three  new  levies  of  this  year,  required  298 
men  as  the  quota  of  Stamford,  our  loyalty  had  already  fur- 
nished 331,  giving  us  a  credit  of  33  men  against  any  further 
claims  which  the  government  might  make. 

On  Sunday,  October  5th,  a  service,  similar  to  that 
reported  in  the  Methodist  Church,  took  place  in  the  Baptist 
Church.  The  Sunday  School  of  this  church  had  purchased  a 
sword  for  lieutenant  John  Simms,  one  of  the  teachers  of 
the  school.  In  his  modest  reply  to  the  presentation  speech, 
made  by  Mr.  Evans,  the  pastor,  he  pledged  what  his  friends 
found  to  be  abundantly  fulfilled  in  the  brief  service  in  which 
he  was  permitted  to  wield  the  sword.  "  I  can  only  say,  that 
I  shall  endeavor  to  merit  the  good  opinion  of  the  donors  of 
this  sword,  and  by  God's  help  it  shall  never  be  disgraced." 


CITIZEN    SERVICE. 

Early  in  November,  while  the  Twenty-eighth  Regiment,  to 
which  both  of  these  companies  had  been  assigned,  was  still 
in  camp  Terry,  New  Haven,  it  was  hinted  by  one  of  our 
citizens,  that  as  Stamford  was  so  largely  represented  in  the 
regiment,  the  colors  should  be  contributed  by  the  citizens. 
Messrs.  James  H.  Olmstead  and  Oliver  Hoyt  secured  the 
needed  funds,  and  on  the  15th  of  the  month  had  the  pleasure 
of  presenting  the  flag  in  the  name  of  Stamford  citizens  to  the 
regiment.  Mr.  Olmstead  made  the  presentation  speech. 
In  this  address  were  words  to  be  remembered.  "  The  best 
and  almost  the  only  truly  constitutional  government  of  any 
age,  has  been  ruthlessly  assailed,  not  by  a  foreign  foe,  but  by 
those  who  have  grown  up  under  its  protection,  and  who  are 
indebted  to  it  for  every  civil  and  religious  privilege.  *  *  * 
You  have  done  nobly  in  laying  yourselves  on  the  altar  of 
your  country.  *  *  To  you,  then,  we  entrust  these 

colors,  feeling  confident  that  though  they  may  be  rent  by  the 
iron  hail  of  the  battle  field,  yet  they  will  be  brought  back  by 
you,  or  the  ground  shall  be  heaped  with  the  slain  of  those 
who  have  dared  to  dishonor  them." 

In  behalf  of  the  regiment,  Col.  Ferris,  a  son  of  the  town, 
accepted  the  colors,  giving  his  pledge  that  "  while  there  is  a 
single  strong  arm  among  these  sons  of  Connecticut,  this 
emblem  of  our  nation,  and  this  flag  of  our  State  shall  never 
be  stained  with  the  pollution  of  rebel  hands." 

Special  calls  upon  the  town  were  made  several  times  during 
the  war,  by  the  United  States  Christian  Commission,  for  the 
Army  and  Navy.  At  a  meeting  in  Seely's  Hall,  March  18, 
1863,  after  several  earnest  addresses  made  for  the  cause,  over 
eleven  hundred  dollars  were  collected.  At  another  meeting, 
held  June  2,  1864,  though  on  a  stormy  evening,  fifteen  hun- 
dred were  promptly  pledged.  And  the  whole  amount  con- 
tributed through  this  channel  to  the  wants  of  our  suffering 


28  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS5    MEMORIAL. 

men  in  the  field,  could  not  have  been  less  than  five  thousand 
dollars. 

It  would  be  impossible  now  to  report  all  the  service  ren- 
dered in  Stamford,  to  the  cause  of  the  Union,  in  the  shape 
of  clothing,  provisions,  cordials  and  hospital  stores.  Almost 
every  family  in  the  town  aided  in  these  contributions. 
Nothing  seemed  withheld  which  could  promote  the  health 
or  comfort  of  our  men  in  the  field.  At  whatever  cost 
goods  were  often  forwarded  to  every  regiment  in  which  we 
were  more  specially  represented. 

Yet,  among  the  agencies  employed  in  doing  this  much 
needed  work,  especial  mention  should  be  made  of  the 
SOLDIERS'  AID  SOCIETY.  This  was  composed  of  ladies, 
representing  the  Congregational,  Episcopal,  Baptist,  Meth- 
odist, and  Universalist  denominations  of  the  village.  They 
organized  on  the  2d  of  July  1861,  and  continued  to  render 
good  service  through  the  war,  reserving,  even  at  its  close, 
such  funds  as  might  still  be  needed  for  disabled  soldiers  or 
their  families.  In  their  weekly  meetings,  and  at  their 
private  homes,  the  amount  of  work  they  did  was  very  great, 
and  its  value  can  never  be  fully  estimated.  As  a  mere  hint 
at  this  service,  I  find  that  they  had  forwarded  by  February, 
1862,  to  our  men  in  the  field,  1,288  different  articles  of 
clothing,  besides  medicine  and  provisions.  In  the  year  1862, 
they  forwarded  602  pairs  of  socks  for  one  article  alone. 
From  July,  1861,  to  February,  1865,  they  had  collected  and 
made  most  effective  use  of  the  sum  of  $6,476.18.  A  con- 
siderable portion  of  this  sum  had  been  invested  in  materials 
for  clothing,  which,  when  made  up,  must  have  been  of  far 
greater  value  to  our  men  in  the  field  and  in  the  hospital 
than  a  much  larger  sum  of  money.  Probably  $10,000 
would  not  equal  the  value  of  the  services  thus  rendered ; 
and  this  service  was  the  tribute  which  the  great  majority 


CITIZEN    SERVICE.  29 

of  our  mothers,  and  wives,  and  daughters  paid  to  their 
loyalty. 

The  successive  presidents  of  the  association  were  Mrs. 
Theodore  Davenport,  Mrs.  Truman  Smith,  Mrs.  Mary  E. 
Miller,  and  Mrs.  H.  B.  Starr ;  its  vice-president,  Mrs.  E. 
Francis ;  its  corresponding  secretary,  Miss  C.  Tomlinson ; 
its  secretaries,  Miss  Catharine  Aiken,  and  Miss  A.  Lovell ; 
and  its  only  and  very  efficient  treasurer,  Miss  Laura  E.  Porter. 
The  following-names  are  found  on  its  Board  of  management : 
Mrs.  Ann  Ebbets,  Mrs.  M.  F.  Merritt,  Mrs.  G.  A.  Hoyt, 
Mrs.  J.  W.  Hubbard,  Mrs.  James  Warner,  Mrs.  J.  H.  Car- 
rington,  Mrs.  it.  E.  Rice,  Mrs.  James  Betts,  Mrs.  C.  E. 
Warren,  Mrs.  J.  L.  Lockwood,  Mrs.  Mary  E.  Miller,  Mrs. 
Woodford,  Mrs.  C.  Weed,  Mrs.  Caldwell,  Mrs.  E.  Webb, 
Mrs.  William  Hoyt,  Mrs.  Albert  Seely,  Mrs.  H.  Weed,  Mrs. 
Dr.  Hurlbutt,  Mrs.  H.  M.  Humphrey,  Mrs.  J.  B.  Knapp,  Mrs. 
William  G.  Betts,  and  the  Misses  Sarah  Hall,  Susan  Daskam, 
Mary  Lockwood,  Imogene  Macien,  and  A.  Crom. 

A  very  important  part  of  the  aid  rendered  by  the  Aid 
Society,  consisted  in  the  supplies  of  provision  and  cordials 
for  our  soldiers  at  David's  Island,  and  to  our  wounded  men 
returning  to  their  homes  or  hospitals  through  the  town. 
During  her  presidency,  Mrs.  Truman  Smith,  with  character- 
istic resolution,  organized  a  system  of  regular  visitation  to 
the  Island,  in  which  a  great  amount  of  timely  service  was 
rendered  by  herself  and  those  who  accompanied  her.  The 
Soldier's  Aid  Society  received  many  a  letter  from  relieved 
soldiers,  overflowing  with  heartiest  thankfulness  for  the 
most  excellent  work  which  they  were  doing  so  efficiently. 

Telegrams  from  the  city  often  came  to  the  Society, 
announcing  the  speedy  arrival  of  a  train  of  cars,  having  on 
board  a  large  number  ot  wounded  men  to  be  nursed,  or  a 
hungry  regiment  to  be  fed ;  and  forthwith  a  detail  of  Stam- 


30  8TAMFOKD    SOLDIERS'    MEMORIAL. 

ford  women  were  on  hand  at  the  depot,  with  the  needed 
supplies. 

Such  is  a  part  of  the  work  done  by  the  spontaneous  liber- 
ality of  our  private  citizens — our  free-will  offerings  to  a 
cause  in  which  were  centered  our  highest  interests  and  our 
best  hopes. 

But  not  less  noticeable  was  the  public  and  official 
action  of  the  town  itself.  Its  recorded  votes  are  a  perpetual 
witness  to  the  earnest  loyalty  of  its  citizens.  Generous  pro- 
vision was  made  at  the  public  expense,  that  the  draft  which 
had  been  ordered,  need  not  bear  unjustly  upon  those  of  our 
townsmen  who  might  be  unable  to  meet  the  expense  of  sub- 
stitutes. Witness  the  vote  of  August  4,  1863,  in  which  a 
bounty  of  $300  was  provided  for  every  drafted  man  who 
should  be  accepted  by  the  Government.  Without  reporting 
each  appropriation  made,  as  the  exigency  of  the  war 
called  for  it,  it  is  only  necessary  to  add,  as  a  witness  to 
the  generous  provision  of  the  town,  that  our  treasury 
shows,  between  April,  1861,  and  October  11,  1865,  appro- 
priations for  war  purposes  to  the  amount  of  $75,627.85. 

We  have  thus  briefly  gathered  some  of  the  proofs  of  the 
loyal  zeal  shown  by  the  citizens  of  Stamford,  during  these 
months  and  years  of  the  great  Secession  experiment.  Such 
zeal  and  such  sacrifice  could  only  have  sprung  from  an  abid- 
ing love  for  the  Union  of  the  States,  and  from  strong  convic- 
tions that  there  is  no  safety  nor  even  a  continued  history  for 
us,  without  such  union.  At  the  opening  of  the  war,  it  was  as 
if  a  whole  people,  moved  by  the  sense  of  a  common  peril, 
had  united  with  all  their  resources  to  effect  their  common 
deliverance.  Nor,  at  any  time  during  the  war,  did  any  other 
opposition  to  the  war  measures  show  itself,  than  such  as 
simply  served  to  re-invigorate,  and  show  in  still  clearer  light 
the  anti- secession  element  in  the  town. 


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Among  the  most  effective  means  by  which  these  results 
were  secured  we  must  not  lose  sight  of  the  teachings  and  the 
examples  of  our  pulpits.  As  in  revolutionary  times  of  old, 
the  clergy  of  the  town  were,  in  loyal  zeal  and  works,  the 
leaders  and  examples  to  their  people.  During  the  few 
months  preceding  actual  collision,  there  were  earnest 
pleas  for  peace,  and  earnest  prayer  that  if  it  could  be,  civil 
war  might  be  averted.  At  our  Union  services  on  the  occa- 
sion of  the  fast  appointed  by  president  Buchanan,  it  seemed 
as  though  the  shrinking  back  from  the  threatened  conflict, 
foreboded  a  future  timidity  which  could  never  face  the  haz- 
ards of  actual  war.  But  when  the  war  note  had  been  once 
sounded,  in  spite  of  this  hope  of  peace,  and  prayer  for  it,  no 
pulpit  here  which  spoke  at  all,  gave  an  uncertain  sound. 
"  Political  preaching,"  as  never  before,  summoned  the  wor- 
shipers of  these  churches  to  an  earnest  and  self-sacrificing 
loyalty.  The  calls  of  the  government  were  enforced  in 
sacred  places,  as  the  very  call  of  God.  Treason  was  pro- 
nounced impiety  ;  and  so  religion  was  held  to  be  inseparable 
from  patriotism.  In  the  Baptist  church,  the  Rev.  P.  S.  Evans, 
lost  no  opportunity  to  urge  upon  the  people  the  grave  duty 
of  the  hour.  No  day  was  too  holy,  in  his  creed,  and  no 
place  too  sacred,  for  the  utterance  and  the  enforcement  of 
loyalty,  and  he  never  stopped  to  apologize  for  either  ;  and 
when  the  time  came  for  him  to  show  his  faith  by  his  works, 
he  was  found  ready  to  take  his  place  as  chaplain  in  the  army, 
with  his  regiment  at  the  front. 

Rev.  R.  R.  Booth,  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  who  left 
his  charge  here  just  as  the  assassins  of  the  nation  were  con- 
certing the  methods  of  their  attack,  in  his  parting  words,  left 
behind  him  the  germs  of  right  thoughts  for  the  coming  crisis  ; 
and  his  successor,  Rev.  1).  K.  Bartlett,  poured  into  the  work 
here,  all  the  warmth  and  earnestness  of  a  passion  for  loyalty 


32  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS5    MEMORIAL. 

and  a  righteous  indignation  against  treason  ;  and  went,  like 
Mr.  Evans,  with  his  regiment,  to  do  the  service  of  an  Army 
Chaplain. 

Rev.  L.  S.  Weed  of  the  Methodist  church  remained  here 
long  enough  to  see  the  people  earnestly  at  work  in  the  strife, 
and  his  weighty  words  had  their  influence  in  rallying  our 
strength  to  the  standard  of  the  Union ;  and  both  his  succes- 
sors, Drs.  Burch  and  Andrews,  only  seconded  and  sustained 
the  loyalty,  which  he  enforced. 

Rev.  L.  W.  Bacon,  of  the  Congregational  church,  gave  us 
his  clear  and  sharp  analysis  of  treason ;  and  by  an  eloquence 
not  often  exceeded,  stirred  the  people  to  whatever  duty,  of 
patient  forbearance  or  courageous  warfare,  a  Christian  pat- 
riotism demanded  of  them. 

Rev.  Walter  Mitchell,  of  the  Episcopal  church,  both  in 
his  own  pulpit  and  in  the  mass  meetings  of  our  citizens — in 
discourse  and  in  verse,  earnestly  enjoined  on  all  good  citi- 
zens the  sacred  duties  of  citizenship  in  the  crisis  which  had 
come. 

Rev.  Eben  Francis,  in  the  Universalist  church,  held  the 
same  theory  ot  loyalty  with  our  other  clergy,  and  in  many  a 
timely  and  eloquent  word,  spoke  nobly  for  the  cause.  He 
rendered,  also,  effective  service  in  the  chaplaincy  which  he 
so  well  filled.  Xor  was  his  co-laborer  and  successor,  Rev.  J. 
iS.  Dodge,  a  whit  behind  the  foremost  of  these  loyal  minis- 
ters, in  either  the  doctrine  or  practice  of  his  loyalty. 

It  is  due,  also,  to  the  memory  of  Father  O'Xeil  of  the 
Catholic  church,  to  add,  that,  being  a  republican,  he  was  in 
full  sympathy  with  the  prosecution  of  the  war,  though  in  his 
feeble  state,  unable  to  give  it  an  active  and  public  advocacy. 

It  should  also  be  added,  that  in  addition  to  the  chaplain 
services  of  at  least  three  of  these  ministers,  others  of  them 
rendered  very  effective  aid  to  our  cause  in  their  voluntary 


CITIZEN    SERVICE.  33 

agency  for  the  United  States  Christian  and  Sanitary  Com- 
missions. 

Under  such  teachings,  appealing  as  they  did  to  the 
responsive  hearts  of  a  loyal  people,  and  enforced  as  they 
were,  by  almost  daily  examples  of  such  practical  and  self- 
denying  devotion  to  the  cause,  as  never  fails  to  move  human 
hearts,  it  is  not  to  be  wondered  at,  that  at  times,  this  zeal 
for  the  Union  cause  seemed  to  be  excessive.  Warm-hearted 
men  would  be  very  likely  to  assume  risks  and  responsibili- 
ties, greater  even  than  the  cause  could  ask  at  their  hands. 
Young  men,  eager  to  avenge  an  insult  offered  for  the  first 
time  in  their  lives  to  their  country's  flag,  even  if  without  the 
physical  endurance  needed  for  the  field,  would  be  very  likely 
to  crowd  forward,  even  over  the  wishes  of  their  friends  and 
the  warnings  of  the  surgeon,  to  a  place  with  the  most  valiant 
in  the  ranks. 

We  are  not  without  many  instances,  in  which  the  sons  of 
the  town  were  kept  out  of  the  ranks,  only  by  the  refusal  of 
the  surgeon  to  allow  the  muster.  We  could  wish  it  possible 
to  enroll  here,  in  our  record  of  CITIZEN  SERVICE,  the  free-will 
offerings  which  they  thus  made.  But  their  names  were 
never  recorded  on  the  muster  roll,  and  many  of  them  were 
never  reported  outside  of  the  families  which  they  repre- 
sented. We  recall  only  these  few  as  the  representatives  of 
this  class  of  our  young  loyalists  : — Charles  W.,  son  of  Rufus 
Wai-dwell;  Arthur  W.,  son  of  Charles  Edwin  Smith; 
Augustus,  son  of  Sanford  Bates  ;  and  George,  son  of  Wm. 
Dayton. 

Others  among  us,  whose  years  exempted  them,  sought  to 
show  their  zeal,  side  by  side  with  their  sons  in  the  field; 
and  our  ranks  thus  actually  held  men  whose  years  would 
have  been  a  bar  to  their  enlistment. 

Others,   still,    who   were  personally  exempt,    outstripped 

E 


34  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS5    MEMORIAL. 

the  letter  of  their  duty,  by  furnishing  an  extra  and  reserve 
soldier,  who  might  possibly  be  needed  in  some  special  emer- 
gency, or  who  might  save  the  stern  necessity  of  calling  away 
from  the  support  of  his  dependent  family,  one  whom  the  law 
of  the  war  called  to  a  sacrifice  which  he  ought  not  to  be 
required  to  make.  How  long  this  list  should  be  we  may 
never  know  ;  but  to  their  honor  and  our  credit,  we  may  here 
record  upon  it  the  names  of  Captain  William  Skiddy  and 
Alfred  Hoyt,  Esq.,  of  whom  Captain  Skiddy  sent  a  soldier 
for  himself,  though  above  the  military  age,  and  his  son  who 
had  not  yet  attained  it. 

To  this  list  it  is  due  that  at  least  one  other  name  should 
be  added,  J.  N.  Ayres,  Esq.  When,  by  the  sad  fortune  of  the 
war,  he  had  been  called  to  lay  his  own  son  in  a  soldier's 
grave,  he  did  not  rest,  until  he  had  refilled  by  a  substitute, 
at  his  own  cost,  the  vacancy  thus  made  in  the  ranks. 

And  then  what  a  record  we  have  in  the  gift  to  the  country, 
in  this  hour  of  her  great  peril,  of  so  many  of  the  sons  from 
so  many  of  our  families.  Our  catalogue  will  show  us  one 
family  offering  eight  of  its  sons  and  grandsons ;  another 
lending  the  services  of  six  sons,  of  whom  one,  wrecked  by 
the  storms  of  war,  returned  only  to  linger  on  till  his  death; 
three  others  gave  for  us  five  sons  each,  four  others  four  sons 
each,  and  eleven  others  still,  each  three  sons.  We  have  not 
yet  counted  up  the  families  from  which  both  father  and  son 
went,  side  by  side  into  the  war ;  nor  those  which  sent  two 
sons  each ;  nor  yet  those  from  which  the  only  son  went, 
never  more  to  return  ;  nor  those  whose  fathers,  bidding  their 
wives  and  little  ones  tearful  adieus,  heroically  went  forth 
facing  the  perils  of  the  field,  to  return  in  so  many 
instances  no  more,  to  the  home-hearths  they  offered  them- 
selves to  save.  We  do  not  attempt  to  chronicle  here  the 
story  of  home-ties  sundered,  and  home-affections  torn,  and 


CITIZEN    SERVICE.  35 

home-hopes  forever  blighted  in  these  years  of  war.  This  is 
the  story  that  pen  cannot  trace.  It  is  felt,  only,  in  the  tear- 
less and  voiceless  depths  of  anguished  and  patiently  suffering 
souls.  And  we  had  them  here,  aye,  and  now  have  them 
among  us.  Oh!  how  many  of  them. 

More  than  any  other  of  these  varied  services,  will  the 
great  sacrifice  of  life  among  us,  remain  an  unequivocal  wit- 
ness to  the  fealty  of  the  people.  No  town,  for  any  trivial 
cause,  would  consent  to  such  a  sacrifice.  There  must  be 
rights  unspeakably  costly  and  precious,  in  danger ;  or  the 
very  principles  on  which  all  those  rights  depend,  must  be  at 
stake,  before  a  people  will  pay  such  a  cost.  How  much  we 
had  thus  suffered  in  our  family  circles  was  seen  with  pain- 
ful distinctness  as  the  Thanksgiving  of  1864  approached. 
It  was  proposed  to  send  the  Thanksgiving  Turkey  to  every 
widow  whose  husband  had  fallen  in  the  war,  when  the  fol- 
lowing list  was  supplied  :  Mrs.  G.  W.  Platt,  J.  Waters,  S. 
II.  Hoyt,  J.  A.  Miles,  Geo.  C.  Swathel,  F.  Dry  son,  J.  J. 
Taylor,  H.  Malian,  M.  Fox,  W.  Gillespie,  C.  E.  Morrell,  L. 
L.  Hoyt,  E.  B.  Bouton,  J.  Vail,  A.  J.  Lockwood,  S.  D. 
Lockwood,  W.  O.  Webb,  G.  A.  Mead,  A.  Boyd,  T.  O'Brien, 
T.  L.  Bailey,  N.  Barmore,  P.  Fryermouth,  A.  Hoyt,  G.  W. 
Hartson,  C.  Jennings,  C.  W.  Miller,  S.  Smith  and  Win.  H. 
Walton.  How  much  more  the  town  was  to  suffer  in  this 
sacrifice  of  life,  our  too  long  roll  of  the  dead,  at  the  close  of 
this  volume  will  show.  But  the  record — full  as  it  is — and 
representing  as  it  does  all  classes  of  families  among  us,  will 
prove  to  us  a  most  enduring  witness  to  the  deep  and  uncon- 
querable loyalty  of  a  people,  who  were  ready  to  pledge  the 
last  dollar  and  the  last  man,  to  resist  the  wicked  counsels 
and  the  wily  assaults  of  treason. 

And  yet,  why  need  we  marvel  even  at  such  exhibitions  of 
a  self-denying  and  self-sacrificing  loyalty  ?  What  have  not 


STAMFORD    SOLDIERS     MEMORIAL. 


a  people  been  willing  to  do  and  dare  in  other  years  and  in 
other  lands,  in  self-defense  ?  What  are  the  bounds,  beyond 
which  earnestly  loyal  souls  will  not  venture,  for  the  sake  of 
father-land  and  .fealty  ? 

Nay,  it  would  have  been  a  greater  marvel,  if  when  rebel 
shots  first  struck  the  Nation's  Sumpter,  a  single  citizen  could 
be  found,  outside  of  the  conspirators  themselves,  whose 
honest  fear  and  hottest  indignation  did  not  rouse  him  to  a 
hero's  part  in  the  defense.  It  would  have  been  a  marvel,  if 
Stamford  had  not  poured  out  her  money  and  her  men  to  meet 
and  crush  out,  quickly  and  forever,  this  fell  germ  of  treason. 
Yes,  thank  God,  it  is  his  ordinance.  HE  gives  to  loyalty  the 
enthusiasm  which  knows  no  bounds.  He  inspires  stout 
hearts,  he  nerves  strong  arms  to  do  his  work,  when 
treason  assails  his  cause.  And  when  thus  inspired  and 
nerved,  why  should  not  the  hosts  of  loyalty  triumph  ?  Why 
should  not  "the  right  hand  of  the  Lord"  be  exalted? 

"THE  RIGHT  HAJSTD  OF  THE  LORD  DOETH  VALIANTLY." 


PART    SECOND. 


MILITARY    SERVICE 


MILITARY    SERVICE. 


In  this  portion  of  the  MEMORIAL  we  shall  report  as  fully  as 
our  space  will  allow,  the  position  and  service  of  every  native 
or  resident  of  the  town,  who  has  been  in  any  way  connected 
with  the  army,  or  with  the  navy«of  the  Union.  And  every 
name  on  our  roll  will  appear  in  its  appropriate  place  in  the 
company,  or  regiment,  or  battalion,  to  which  it  properly  be- 
longs. As  the  town  was  much  more  fully  represented  in 
the  Third,  Sixth,  Tenth,  Seventeenth  and  Twenty-eighth 
regiments  of  Connecticut  volunteers,  than  in  any  others,  we 
shall  first  report  these  regiments  with  a  list  of  their  principal 
engagements,  as  the  most  intelligible  and  briefest  way  of 
locating  the  great  majority  of  our  toAvnsmen  in  the  war. 

To  these  will  succeed  the  list  of  our  townsmen  scattered 
through  the  other  regiments  of  the  State,  with  such  personal 
notices  as  we  can  supply.  Then  will  follow  our  representa- 
tives in  the  regiments  of  other  States,  alphabetically  ar- 
ranged ;  and  the  last  list  will  be  that  of  those  who  have  been 
in  the  regular  service  in  the  United  States  army. 

For  the  Connecticut  portion  of  this  list,  I  am  not  a  little 
indebted  to  the  "  Catalogue  of  the  Connecticut  Volunteer 
Force"  issued  by  the  Adjutant  General  of  the  State,  though 
my  list  will  differ  considerably  from  that  of  the  State  cata- 
logue, both  in  the  number  of  the  names  and  in  their  ortho- 
graphy. For  the  list  of  names  connected  with  the  regiments 
of  other  States,  I  have  been  obliged  to  depend  mainly  upon 


4:0  STAMFORD   SOLDIERS'    MEMORIAL.  * 

my  own  private  record  of  our  townsmen,  as  from  week  to 
week  during  the  struggle,  their  enlistment  came  to  my  know- 
ledge. The  lists  secured  from  both  of  these  sources  have 
been  considerably  modified  by  personal  application  to  more 
than  a  hundred  and  fifty  of  these  volunteers  or  their  fam- 
ilies. If  errors  are  still  found  in  the  list,  or  if  omissions  are 
detected,  they  must  be  such  as  have  occurred  in  spite  of  the 
most  laborious  and  expensive  pains-taking. 

At  the  head  of  each  of  these  fuller  companies,  will  be  in- 
dicated the  times  of  mustering  in,  of  re-enlistment,  and  of 
final  discharge,  so  that  these  facts  need  not  be  repeated  at 
each  name.  When,  in  individual  cases,  enlistment,  or  dis- 
charge occurred  at  other  times,  the  record  will  be  found 
against  the  names  to  which  they  refer. 

THIRD    CONN. 
COLONELS  JOHN  ARNOLD,  and  J.  L.  CHATFIELD. 

In  this  Regiment,  Company  F,  Stamford  was  represented 
by  thirty-nine  men.  Their  captain,  Albert  Stevens,  on  the 
opening  of  the  war,  was  residing  in  the  town,  and  having 
already  seen  considerable  service,  and  being  thoroughly  in 
sympathy  with  the  aim  of  the  war,  he  was  commissioned  to 
be  their  leader.  The  balance  of  the  company  consisted  of 
eighteen  men  from  Darien  and  thirteen  from  New  Canaan. 

Leaving  Stamford  Monday  morning,  April  18,  1861,  the 
company  went  to  their  rendezvous  in  Hartford,  where  they 
were  set  earnestly  to  the  work  of  fitting  themselves  for  the 
field.  Scarcely  a  man  of  them  ever  handled  fire-arms,  least 
of  all  with  any  design  of  putting  them  to  a  military  use.  Of 
the  spirit  of  these  men  we  had  a  good  illustration  in  an 
incident  occurring  while  they  were  on  drill  in  Hartford, 
before  they  were  mustered.  They  had  been  encouraged 


MILITARY    SERVICE. THIRD    CONN.  41 

before  leaving  home  with  the  promise  of  equipment  with 
Sharp's  rifles.  Instead  of  these,  notice  came  to  them  that 
they  would  have  to  march  with  the  old  smooth-bore  musket. 
They  were,  of  course,  tried  by  the  disappointment,  and 
protested  against  the  order.  But  the  times  allowed  of  no 
delay  ;  and  when  the  captain  called  upon  those  in  the  ranks, 
who  would  go  on  with  him  to  meet  the  enemy,  even  if  the 
Government  would  give  them  "  nothing  but  pitchforks,"  to 
step  forward,  every  man  of  them  sprang  to  the  front.  And 
this  was  the  spirit  which  animated  them  to  the  end  of  the 
term  for  which  they  had  enlisted,  and  which  led  so  many  of 
them  to  re-enlist.  They  were  at  length  mustered  into  the 
service  in  Hartford,  for  three  months,  leaving  that  city,  May 
19th,  for  New  Haven,  where  they  took  the  steamer  Cahawba 
for  AVashington.  Here  they  joined,  May  23d,  the  First  and 
Second  Connecticut  Regiments,  and  were  put  under  vigor- 
ous drill  in  camp  Douglas,  until  June  23d,  when  they  were 
ordered  to  camp  Tyler,  at  Falls  Church,  in  Virginia,  and  for 
several  days  they  held  this  exposed  position.  On  a  scouting 
expedition  to  Hunter's  Road,  June  30th,  Captain  Stevens, 
with  forty  of  his  command,  took  three  horses  and  two 
prisoners  from  the  famed  Black  Horse  Cavalry  of  the  rebels. 
One  of  the  horses  thus  taken  was  used  by  General  Tyler  on 
the  day  of  the  Bull  Run  rout. 

On  July  15th,  our  three  Connecticut  Regiments  were 
brigaded  with  the  Eleventh  Maine,  under  Col.  E.  D. 
Keyes,  and  on  the  next  day  were  ordered  to  advance,  the 
Third  Connecticut  taking  the  lead.  They  were  arrested  at 
Blackburn  Ford,  by  Longstreet's  division  ;  and  here  for  two 
days  of  varied  skirmishing,  the  brigade  held  this  advanced 
post,  while  the  Union  forces  were  brought  up.  AVe  next 
find  our  company  entering  the  apparently  disastrous  Bull 
Run  engagement,  July  21,  1861.  AVe  shall  never  know  all 


42  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS'    MEMORIAL. 

of  the  daring  of  those  terrible  hours.  Terry  was  ordered  at 
about  two  o'clock  P.  M.  to  take  a  battery,  which  greatly 
annoyed  the  Union  troops.  It  was  while  executing  this 
order  that  our  company  showed  itself  ready  for  the  severest 
ordeals  of  war.  Meeting,  they  drove  before  them  the 
skirmish  lines  of  the  enemy  to  the  very  summit  of  the  hill, 
over  which  the  batteries  were  masked  and  supported  by 
infantry,  and  there,  "  unfurled  the  stars  and  stripes  above  it, 
pausing  from  the  fight  to  cheer  for  the  Union  cause." 

Among  the  men  who  represented  us  on  that  day,  must  be 
named  as  especially  deserving  mention,  our  first  and  second 
lieutenants,  Wells  Allis  and  Isaac  L.  Hoyt,  and  our  First 
Sergeant,  Charles  A.  Hobbie.  It  was  well  earned  testimony 
which  General  Keyes  was  obliged  to  render  this  regiment  in 
his  official  report,  and  to  no  part  of  his  command  did  it  more 
truthfully  apply,  than  to  our  Stamford  representatives:— 
"  The  gallantry  with  which  the  Second  regiment  of  Maine 
and  the  Third  of  Connecticut  Volunteers,  charged  up  the 
hill  upon  the  enemy's  artillery  and  infantry  was  never,  in 
my  opinion,  surpassed."  No  higher  praise  is  needed  for 
these  sons  of  the  town,  than  that  being  first  in  the  engage- 
ments of  that  unfortunate  day,  they  were  also  the  last  to 
leave  the  field  ;  and  that  they  left  it,  not  like  the  great  mass 
of  the  Union  army,  in  a  disgraceful  rout,  but  in  good  order, 
and  with  their  arms.  To  this  record  we  can  also  add,  that 
by  hard  fighting,  they  had  to  defend  themselves  and  protect 
for  several  miles  the  retreating  army.  We  have,  also,  Gen. 
Tyler's  testimony,  that  it  was  the  good  conduct  of  these  sons 
of  Connecticut,  which  "  saved  us.  not  only  a  large  amount 
of  public  property,  but  the  mortification  of  having  our  stand- 
ing camps  fall  into  the  hands  of  the  enemy."  Our  company 
roll  at  the  end  of  this  account  mentions  the  capture  of  three 
of  our  men.  It  is  due  to  one  of  these  prisoners  of  war,  that 


MILITARY    SERVICE. THIRD    CONN.  43 

we  here  give  the  story  of  his  capture.  George  Weed,  the 
third  on  the  list  of  those  taken  prisoners,  had  been  assisting 
Robert  Wilson  and  Charles  Hunnewell  of  our  company,  and 
A.  E.  Bronson  of  Co.  C,  in  removing  from  the  hospital, 
Sergeant  John  R.  Marsh  of  Danbury,  who  was  in  a  dying 
condition.  The  agony  of  the  wounded  soldier  was  such  that 
he  begged  them  to  take  him  up  into  a  piece  of  woods  near 
them,  and  let  him  die.  They  did  so,  and  there  watched  over 
him,  with  such  ministry  of  kindness  as  they  could  render, 
until  his  death.*  This  had  taken  so  much  time,  as  to  make 
it  difficult  for  them  to  overtake  their  regiment,  then  on  the 
retreat ;  and  none  of  them  succeeded  in  eluding  the  pursu- 
ing army,  excepting  the  shrewd  and  active  Wilson.  And 
so,  devotion  to  his  wounded  comrade  cost  Mr.  Weed  his  cap- 
ture and  imprisonment.  The  company  after  the  rout  at 
Bull  Run  were  not  again  called  into  the  field.  Returning 
to  Connecticut  at  the  expiration  of  the  three  months  for 
which  they  had  enlisted,  they  were  mustered  out  with  the 
regiment  at  Hartford.  On  their  return  to  Stamford,  they 
were  welcomed  in  a  brief  address  of  congratulation  on  behalf 
of  their  townsmen,  by  the  author  of  this  MEMORIAL,  and  with 
a  prayer  of  thanksgiving  by  Rev.  L.  S.  Weed,  of  the  Method- 
ist church.  The  response,  made  by  Capt.  Stevens,  to  the 
address,  indicated  the  readiness  of  the  company  to  re-enter 
service,  as  soon  as  they  could  recover  from  the  wear  of  their 
past  three  months'  campaign.  The  following  catalogue  will 
show  who  of  them  re-enlisted  ;  and  the  records  of  the  com- 
panies which  they  joined,  will  witness  to  the  good  service 
that  many  of  them  did,  as  proved  and  accredited  VETERANS. 


*  This  record  will  correct  an  error  which  crept  into  the  note  on  page  100  of  the  ex- 
cellent "Military  and  Civil  History  of  Connecticut  during  the  Civil  War." 


4:4:  STAMFOKD    SOLDIERS'    MEMORIAL. 

RIFLE  COMPANY  F. 

Mustered  into  the  United  States  Service,  May  14,  1861,  Mustered  out  August  12,  1861. 

ALBERT  STEVENS,  Capt.,  re-en  1.  into  the  17th  Conn. 
WELLS  ALLIS,  1st  Lieut.,  re-enl.  into  the  95th  Ohio. 
THEODORE  MILLER,  Sergt.,  re-enl.  into  the  10th  Conn. 
EDWARD  F.  NICHOLS,  Sergt.,  afterwards  served  in  the  Navy. 
MARCUS  WATERBURY,  Sergt.,  re-enl.  into  the  17th  Conn. 
HENRY  M.  CAPPKR,  Corp.,  re-enl.  into  the  10th  Conn. 
JACOB  VANDERHOFF,  Corp.,  re-enl.  into  17th  Conn. 
THADDEUS  L.  BAILEY,  Corp.,  re-enl.  into  the  28th  Conn. 
PHILIP  LEVER,  Musician,  re-enl.  into  the  28th  Conn. 
JOHN  II.  VERNAL,  Musician,  re-enl.  into  the  17th  Conn. 
SMITH  BROWN,  was  discharged  for  disability. 
ELA  BALLARD,  re-enl.  into  the  28th  Conn. 
EDSON  BEARDSLEY,  re-enl.  into  the  17th  Conn. 
CHARLES  A.  BAILEY,  did  not  re-enlist. 
EDWARD  J.  BING,  Jr.,  re-enl.  into  the  6th  Conn. 
.[AMES  CONLAN,  re-enl.  into  the  8th  Conn. 
CHARLES  I.  DAYTON,  entered  the  Navy. 
THEODORE  DELCROIX,  re-enl.  into  the  28th  Conn. 
EDWARD  A.  FERRIS,  re-enl.  into  the  28th  Conn. 
JOSHUA  D.  GILMORE,  taken  prisoner  at  Bull  Run,  July  21, 

1861,  and  held  as  a  prisoner  until  the  next  spring,  re-enl. 

into  some  foreign  regiment. 

WILLIAM  HOBBLE.  See  Obituary. 

JOHN  HARVEY,  re-enl.  into  the  17th  Conn. 
CHARLES  H.  KREIG,  re-enl.  into  the  6th  Conn. 
JOHN  KELLEY,  is  not  known  to  have  re-enlisted. 
JOHN  KELLY,  2d,  re-enl.  into  the  17th  Conn. 
HENRY  I.  LOUNSBURY,  re-enl.  into  the  17th  Conn. 
MICHAEL  MURPHY,  is  not  known  to  have  re-enlisted. 
JOSEPH  PAIGHT,  taken  prisoner  at  Bull  Run,  July  21,  1861, 

and  held  by  the  rebels  eleven  months.     After  his  release, 

he  re-enl.  into  the  28th  Conn. 


MILITARY    SERVICE. CO.    F,    THIRD    CONN.  45 

PETER  ROONEY,  it  is  thought,  went  into  a  New  York  cavalry 

regiment. 

GEORGE  A.  SCOFIELD,  re-enl.  into  the  17th  Conn. 
DAVID  H.  SCOFIELD,  re-enl.  into  the  Ira  Harris  cavalry. 
JAMES  T.  SCOFIELD,  re-enl.  into  17th  Conn. 
JOHN  SIMMS,  re-enl.  into  the  10th  Conn. 
THEODORE  "W.  SWAN,  returned  to  his  business  here. 
FRANCIS  L.  STILL,  re-enl.  in  the  6th  Conn. 
ALONZO  P.  TOMS,  returned  to  his  business  here. 
ORLANDO  TOWNSEND,  re-enl.  into  the  6th  Conn. 
JAMES  E.  WEBB,  discharged  for  disability  ;  is  now  living  in 

Peekskill,  N.  Y. 
GEORGE  WEED,  was  taken  prisoner  at  Bull  Run,  July  21, 

1861.     He  was  exchanged  in  July,  1862,  and  re-enl.  into 

the  17th  Conn. 


SIXTH    CONN. 

COLS.  J.  L.  CHATFIELD,  D.  C.  RODMAN,   REDFIELD  DURYEE, 
AND  A.  P.  ROCKWELL. 

In  company  D  of  this  regiment,  Stamford  was  represented, 
before  the  close  of  the  war  by  107  men.  As  a  regiment  it 
took  rank  among  the  most  efficient;  and  none  of  its  com- 
panies did  better  service  than  the  Stamford  company.  This 
was  distinctly  foretokened,  both  by  the  character  of  the 
volunteers  themselves,  and  still  more  by  the  special  military 
fitness  of  their  captain.  We  were  not  surprised  to  have  the 
company  thus  reported  by  an  intelligent  correspondent  from 
New  Haven  while  they  were  still  in  camp  there  :  "  This  com- 
pany is  admitted  by  all  to  be  the  best  company  on  the  ground. 
Even  captains  of  other  companies  concede  this  much.  The 
men  have  been  longer  and  better  drilled.  Out  of  84  men 
only  two  were  rejected.  Altogether,  Stamford  has  cause  to 


4:6  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS5    MEMORIAL,. 

be  proud  of  the  company,  and  I  am  satisfied  it  will  never 
disgrace  your  citizens." 

Nor  was  it  altogether  an  unexpected  award  made  to  the 
regiment,  later  in  the  war,  by  its  Brigadier,  Horatio  G. 
Wright :  "  The  Sixth  is  my  best  regiment — they  have  done 
more  work,  taken  more  property,  and  behaved  better,  than 
any  other  of  my  regiments." 

This  regiment  left  New  Haven,  Sept.  17th,  1861,  and  at 
Jersey  City  took  cars  for  "Washington.  After  remaining  in 
tents  at  Glenwood  until  Oct.  5th,  they  went  to  Annapolis, 
where  they  embarked,  Oct.  20th  with  sixteen  other  regi- 
ments, for  the  expedition  to  South  Carolina  under  Sherman  ; 
and  on  the  29th  they  left  Fortress  Monroe,  to  begin  in  earn- 
est the  severe  work  to  which  they  were  called.  After  the 
successful  naval  action  of  Nov.  7th,  in  which  Forts  Walker 
and  Beauregard  were  taken,  the  honor  was  assigned  to  the 
Sixth  and  Seventh  Connecticut  regiments  of  first  landing  on 
rebel  territory,  and  taking  possession  of  it  in  the  name 
of  the  government  of  the  United  States.  The  Sixth,  in 
command  of  captain  Meeker,  on  board  the  Winfield  Scott, 
and  the  Seventh  under  Col.  Terry  in  row  boats,  started 
together,  to  execute  this  order.  The  steamer  grounding  just 
off  Fort  Walker,  the  opportunity  is  afforded  to  the  row  boats 
to  reach  the  shore  first,  and  the  Seventh  rapidly  formed  on 
the  beach,  while  the  Sixth  were  landing ;  and  Hilton  Head 
was  now  in  the  hands  of  the  Union  forces. 

Under  date  of  Nov.  29th  we  have  the  following  account 
of  the  first  permanent  occupancy  of  the  main  land  by  our 
army,  in  a  letter  from  captain  Meeker : 

"  Last  Saturday  morning,  we  left  Hilton  Head  and  the 
same  day  reached  Graham's  Plantation.  On  Sunday  morn- 
ing, Nov.  24rth,  we  started  for  Buckingham  Ferry.  As  we 
approached  the  shore,  we  discovered  some  eight  or  ten  of  the 


MILITARY    SERVICE. SIXTH    CONN.  47 

enemy's  pickets,  on  whom  we  fired  at  once.  They  imme- 
diately mounted  their  horses  and  fled  like  deer.  *  *  The 
men  behaved  nobly  and  landed  from  the  boats  in  fine  style. 
Without  the  least  hesitation  they  leaped  into  the  water, 
where  it  was  three  or  four  feet  deep  and  rushing-  to  the  shore 
formed  in  good  order.  This  was  the  first  expedition  to  the 
main  land,  except  when  I  crossed  some  eight  days  before 
with  nine  men. 

On  Monday,  John  Yandervaldt,  Martin  Stottlar,  Bob 
Wilson  and  Scriber  went  on  an  expedition  of  their  own  to 
the  main  land.  They  drove  in  the  secesh  pickets—  took  their 
flag  and  brought  it  into  camp,  the  only  one  taken  except  the 
one  on  the  fort  at  the  time  of  bombardment." 

It  would  have  amused  us  to  see  our  energetic  captain 
attempt  the  exploration  of  Seceshdom  on  a  secesh  mule. 
He  had  gone  over  to  Bull  Island,  on  a  military  errand. 
Obliged  to  leave  his  own  horse  in  camp,  he  found  the  need 
of  one  on  the  island.  He  soon  spied  a  negro  driving  his 
mule  in  his  cart ;  and  on  learning  from  him  that  the  beast 
was  good  under  the  saddle,  he  negotiated  for  his  use.  He 
mounted  and  started  with  his  company,  but  his  vicious  don- 
key used  his  heels  so  skilfully  as  to  leave  his  rider  at  his 
leisure  on  the  sward,  while  his  donkey  ship  careered  at 
2.40  speed  around  the  fields. 

The  early  part  of  1862  found  this  company  still  in  the 
Department  of  the  South.  For  more  than  a  month  they 
were  on  board  transports  in  Warsaw  Sound,  to  be  ready  at 
a  signal  to  take  part  in  a  secret  expedition,  headed  by  Gen. 
Wright.  Nothing  could  exceed  their  discomfort  during 
this  trying  period.  Salt  food  only,  and  foul  water,  with  their 
crowded  transports,  left  them  a  prey  to  the  fever  of  the 
region,  and  they  were  obliged  to  return  to  Hilton  Head, 
where  they  rapidly  recovered.  In  March  they  were  sent 
I 


4:8  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS5    MEMORIAL. 

over  to  Dawfuskie  Island,  to  take  part  in  the  reduction  of 
Fort  Pulaski.  In  May  they  are  ordered  to  James'  Island., 
near  Charleston,  and  in  executing  this  order  our  men  saw 
not  a  little  privation.  Returning  to  Hilton  Head,  they 
remained  until  October  21st,  when  they  were  sent  on  an 
expedition  to  break  up  railroad  communication  between 
Charleston  and  Savannah.  The  pilot  of  this  raid  was  one  of 
our  men,  Robert  Wilson.  On  the  22d  occurred  the  sharp 
fighting  at  Pocataligo,  in  which  our  company  dared  well, 
and  suffered  much  as  skirmishers,  under  lieutenant  J. 
Stottlar ;  the  captain  being  in  command  of  the  regiment 
after  the  fall  of  the  colonel  and  his  lieutenant-colonel,  John 
Speidal. 

The  winter  of  1862-3  was  spent  in  camp  at  Beaufort  and 
Hilton  Head.  In  March,  1863,  they  were  in  Florida,  but 
after  evacuating  Jacksonville,  returned  to  Hilton  Head. 
Early  in  June,  1863,  the  company  were  transferred  to  Folly 
Island,  where  for  nearly  a  month  they  were  quietly  engaged 
in  making  preparations  for  taking  possession  of  Morris  Island, 
lying  between  them  and  Charleston.  IS'o  night  succeeded 
which  did  not  tax  to  the  utmost  their  skill  and  their  endu- 
rance ;  and  by  the  9th  of  July  they  had  made  ready  for  the 
advance.  Here  our  men  did  most  effective  service.  As  the 
regiment  under  their  gallant  colonel  landed,  Company  I ) 
were  ordered  to  deploy  as  skirmishers  to  the  front.  Under 
their  first  and  second  lieutenants,  John  and  Martin  Stottlar. 
they  started  at  "  double  quick,"  mounted  the  first  battery 
and  captured  all  the  gunners,  and  sent  them  to  the  rear  as 
prisoners  of  war.  They  then  filed  off  to  the  left,  mounting 
the  second  battery  as  the  first,  and  so  on  until  all  the  bat 
teries  were  carried,  numbering  in  all  twelve  batteries  of 
siege  guns.  The  color  bearer  of  the  rebels  was  making  oft* 
with  their  battle  flag,  when  Roper  Hounslow  shot  him 


MILITARY     SERVICE. SIXTH    CONN.  49 

down.  Lieutenant  Martin  Stottlar  being  close  at  his  heels, 
took  the  flag  the  moment  he  fell.  It  bore  the  date  which 
our  boys  could  never  have  forgotten,  Pocotaligo,  October 
22,  1862.  The  batteries  had  been  taken  in  fine  style. 
Company  D  alone  taking  sixty-four  prisoners,  when  its 
whole  number  of  effective  men  was  but  sixty -two. 

Again,  after  a  night  of  furious  rain  in  the  rifle  pits,  the 
company  joined  with  a  will  in  the  severe  charge  on  Wagner, 
of  the  18th.  The  first  Lieut.  John  Stottlar,  was  sent  to  the 
front  with  the  body  of  his  command  as  sharpshooters,  and 
the  thirteen  who  were  not  in  the  pits,  were  in  the  furious 
charge  which  followed,  under  their  second  Lieut.,  Martin 
Stottlar.  How  desperate  was  the  work  which  our  men  here 
did,  is  seen  in  the  fact  that  before  the  colors  of  the  Sixth 
Conn,  were  planted  on  the  fort,  eleven  color-bearers  had 
been  shot  down.  And  what  was  worse  than  the  perilous 
advance  on  Wagner  and  the  storming  of  its  well-worked 
batteries,  amid  the  shot  and  shell  which  the  Sumpter  and 
James'  Island  batteries  were  pouring  upon  the  advancing 
column,  was  the  courageous  feat  of  holding  the  fort  alone 
for  three  hours,  against  three  desperate  attempts  of  the 
rebels  to  recover  it. 

Among  the  men  who  were  counted  worthy  of  special 
remembrance  and  honor  for  the  daring  work  of  this  fierce 
fighting,  our  company  counts  two,  to  whom  General  Gilmore 
awarded  medals  of  honor,  Sergeant  Norman  Provost  and 
Horace  Hobby. 

The  Sixth,  after  the  severe  work  they  had  done  before 
Wagner,  were  sent  back  to  Hilton  Plead  for  recruiting.  In 
January,  1864,  they  had  a  short  furlough,  during  which  they 
visited  the  North,  and  were  welcomed  at  New  Haven  by  a 
midnight  exhibition  of  fireworks  and  a  sumptuous  supper. 
A  complimentary  supper  was  also  given  the  re-enlisted  men 


50  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS'    MEMORIAL. 

of  this  company,  February  20,  1864,  at  the  Stamford 
House,  when  their  captain,  Charles  H.  Nichols,  was  pre- 
sented with  a  sword  from  the  citizens  of  Stamford,  by  Thos. 
G.  Hitch,  Esq.  J.  B.  Ferris,  Esq.,  followed  the  presentation 
by  handing  to  the  captain  a  purse  containing  $1050,  to  be 
distributed  equally  among  the  forty-two  re-enlisted  men. 

Returning  South,  they  embarked  April  6th,  at  Hilton 
Head,  and  proceeded  to  Gloucester  Point  in  Virginia,  where 
they  were  assigned  to  the  10th  Army  Corps,  under  Major- 
Gen.  Gilmore.  May  4th,  they  embarked  on  transports  and 
proceeded  up  the  James'  river,  and  by  the  10th,  we  find  the 
Sixth,  now  led  by  our  townsman,  lieutenant-colonel  Meeker, 
doing  good  service,  near  Chester  Station,  destroying  the 
track  of  the  Richmond  and  Petersburg  railroad. 

From  this  date  until  the  16th,  our  men  were  almost  con- 
stantly engaged  in  skirmishing,  until  they  felt,  on  the  mor- 
ning of  the  latter  date,  the  sudden  and  heavy  fall  of  the  rebel 
army  upon  their  exposed  front  before  Fort  Darling.  During 
these  days  of  constant  exposure,  nine  of  the  Stamford  men 
were  more  or  less  severely  wounded,  as  the  company  roll 
will  show.  May  20th  witnessed  another  engagement  in 
which  they  succeeded  in  capturing  a  portion  of  the  advanced 
rifle  pits  of  the  rebels,  when  two  more  of  our  townsmen  are 
reported  among  the  wounded.  Next  followed  the  engage- 
ment of  June  17th,  near  Bermuda  Hundred.  This  time 
Longstreet  pounced  upon  our  advance  with  a  heavy  force, 
and  captured  Captain  Nichols  and  nine  of  his  command,  and, 
of  course,  gave  them  a  trial  of  the  tender  mercies  of  rebel 
prison  life,  as  they  had  occasion  to  learn  on  reaching  Libby 
the  next  evening.  "  Here,"  and  we  are  following  the  cap- 
tain's own  diary,  "  we  were  searched  by  the  notorious  Dick 
Turner,  and  I  had  all  my  greenbacks  taken  from  me.  On 
the  morning  of  the  19th,  about  ten  o'clock,  our  rations  for 


MILITARY    SERVICE. SIXTH     CONN.  51 

the  day  were  brought  in  ;  they  were  one-half  pint  of  cow  pea 
soup,  two  ounces  rotten  bacon,  and  one  half  pound  corn 
bread." 

Thence  on  the  21st  they  were  sent  to  Macon,  Ga.,  where, 
on  the  following  Fourth  of  July,  they  raised  the  stars  and 
stripes,  "  much  to  the  disgust  of  the  officers  "  in  charge  of 
them.  July  28th  they  were  sent  to  Charleston,  and  thence, 
October  5th,  to  Columbia,  and  assigned  quarters  in  an  open 
field  without  shelter.  November  4th,  the  captain  escaped, 
and  after  a  tramp  of  ninety  miles  was  captured  November 
9th,  and  sent  back  to  Columbia.  On  the  29th  he  made  his 
escape  again  with  several  others.  The  captain's  diary  shall 
explain  how  he  this  time  succeeded. 

"  Before  going  to  our  hiding  place  at  daylight,  we  called 
on  the  negroes  who  had  helped  us  on  our  previous  journey. 
One  of  them  told  us  that  the  dogs  would  be  run  that  day, 
but  we  could  fool  the  dogs.  So  we  were  led  to  the  barn 
and  put  in  the  hay  loft,  where  we  lay  all  day  and  the  next 
night,  the  negroes  cooking  rations  for  us  and  bringing  them 

to    US.       THE    NEGROES    WERE  TRUE  TO  US    IN  EVERY     INSTANCE. 

After  leaving  this  place,  we  found  other  negroes  who  helped 
us  in  every  way  they  could.  After  traveling  at  night  and 
lying  still  in  the  day,  for  ten  days,  we  arrived  safely  at  the 
coast,  and  were  rescued  by  the  picket  boat  from  the  United 
States  gun  boat,  Nipsic."  As  it  happened,  his  deliverer  was 
another  of  our  townsmen,  engineer  L.  L.  P.  Ayres.  After 
being  thus  rescued,  the  captain  was  sent  to  Charleston  har- 
bor, where  he  reported  to  the  fleet  commander,  and  was  sent 
to  Port  Royal.  From  Port  Royal  he  went  to  New  York, 
which  he  reached  December  20,  1 864. 

Meanwhile,  in  the  engagements  at  Deep  Itun,  from  the 
14th  to  the  18th  of  August,  our  men  again  saw  hard  fighting 
and  sustained  some  losses — captain  John  Stottlar  and  eight 


52  STAMFORD   SOLDIERS5    MEMORIAL. 

of  his  command  being  the  victims  of  these  incessant  skir- 
mishes. From  this  date  forward,  whether  at  the  front, 
steadily  facing  Richmond — the  real  seat  of  the  rebel  power — 
or  before  New  York — threatened  with  a  mild  form  of  rebel- 
lion from  the  foreign  population,  our  company  continued  to 
merit  well  for  brave  and  honorable  service.  And  when 
Terry  had  obtained  permission  to  take  Fort  Fisher,  he 
turned  to  our  Sixth  and  Seventh  regiments,  whose  gallant 
service  he  had  so  often  witnessed,  to  share  with  him  the 
brilliant  achievement  which  made  that  "  impregnable  "  fort 
our  own,  and  the  subsequent  movement  which  opened  Wil- 
mington to  our  troops. 

The  report  of  the  Adjutant-General  of  the  State  for  1866, 
gives  the  following  as  the  principal  engagements  in  which 
this  regiment  took  part: — Pocotaligo,  October  22,  1862; 
Morris  Island,  July  10,  1863  ;  Fort  Wagner,  July  18,  1863  ; 
all  in  South  Carolina ;  Chester  Station,  May  10, 1864  ;  Near 
Bermuda  Hundred,  May  10  to  June  18,  1864,  Deep  Run, 
August  14  to  18,  1864,  in  Virginia  ;  and  Fort  Fisher,  N.  C., 
January  15,  1865. 

COMPANY  D. 

This  Company  was  mustered  in  September  5,  1861,  re-enlisted  December  24,  1863,  and 
mustered  out  August  21,  1865, 

LORENZO  MEEKER,  commissioned  Capt.  August  23d,  1861, 
promoted  Major  July  24th,  1862,  and  Lieut.  Col.  Nov. 
27th,  1863.  At  the  close  of  his  term  of  service  he  was 
urged  to  remain  in  the  service,  in  consideration  of  his 
efficient  conduct  in  command.  He  at  length  resigned, 
Sept.  30th,  1864,  and  was  honorably  discharged. 

CHARLES  H.  NICHOLS,  commissioned  1st  Lieut.  August  23d, 
1861,  and  Capt.  July  24th,  1862.  An  excellent  officer  in 
the  care  of  his  command  and  in  his  steady  courage  in 


MILITARY    SERVICE. CO.    D,    SIXTH    CONN.  53 

action.  He  was  detailed  in  1861  to  organize  a  guard  by 
Gen.  W.  T.  Sherman,  and  served  also  as  aid  to  Col.  Chat- 
field  while  on  James'  Island.  At  Beaufort  he  rendered 
good  service  as  Provost  Marshal. 

JOHN  STOTTLAR,  commissioned  2d  Lieut,  August  23,  1861, 
promoted  1st  Lieut.  July  24,  1862,  and  Capt.  Feb.  19, 

1864,  and  assigned  to  Co.  C  of  the  regiment.     His  pro- 
motion was  the  fitting  reward  for  soldierly  merit.     W  hen 
needed,  he  was  ready  both  to  dare  and  to  do.     At  the  ex- 
piration of  his  term  of  enlistment  he  was  honorably  dis- 
charged Dec.  2,  1864. 

WILLIAM  II.  MEEKER,  entered  the  service  as  1st  Sergt.,  and 
was  commissioned  2d  Lieut.  July  24,  1862.  He  resigned 
Feb.  10, 1863. 

MARTIN  STOTTLAR  entered  the  service,  2d  Sergt.,  was  com- 
missioned 2d  Lieut.  Feb.  10,  1863  and  1st  Lieut.  Jan. 
!',»,  1864.  He  deserves  well  of  his  townsmen  both  for 
his  daring  on  the  field  and  for  the  patience  and  courage 
with  which  lie  endured  the  long  suffering,  which  followed 
the  severe  wounds  of  July  18,  1863,  before  Fort  Wagner. 
He  had  well  earned  the  sword  presented  him  by  the  citi- 
zens of  the  town,  in  January,  1864.  He  resigned,  March 
17,  1864. 

NORMAN  PROVOST,  entered  the  service  as  3d  Sergt.  He  re- 
enlisted  veteran,  and  was  commissioned  2d  Lieut,  March 
17,  1864,  and  promoted  1st  Lieut.  May  31,  1864.  He 
brought  back  with  him  the  medal  which  testifies  to  his 
good  conduct  on  the  battle-field. 

JOHN  II.  BOTTS  entered  the  service  as  private,  re-enlisted 
veteran,  and  was  wounded  in  the  eyes  at  Bermuda 
Hundred.  He  was  commissioned  1st  Lieut.  March  3, 

1865,  assigned  to  Co.  C.,  and  mustered  out  with  the  com- 
pany. 

JOHN  VANDERVALT,  Sergt.,  served  in  the  signal  corps,  and  at 
the  end  of  his  term  of  enlistment  was  mustered  out. 

HORACE  P.  HOBBY,  Sergt.,  re-enl.  veteran.       See  Obituary. 
GILES  CAREY,  Sergt.,  was  discharged  for  disability  in  J  863. 


54  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS3    MEMORIAL. 

GEORGE  "W.  FINCH,  Sergt.,  wounded  in  hand  and  hip  at  Fort 

Darling,  May  20,  1864. 
ROBERT  WILSON,  Corp.,  an  active  and  useful  soldier,  wounded 

in  the  shoulder  at  Pocotaligo,  and  transferred  to  Inv.  Corps 

Sept.  30,  1863. 
THOMAS  SCRIBER,  Corp.,  wounded  at  Fort  Darling,  May  15, 

1864. 

GEORGE  W.  YOUNGS,  Corp.,  detailed  for  Quartermaster's  de- 
partment. 
WM.  H.  INNESS,  Corp.,  was  discharged  for  disability,  Jan.  Y, 

1863. 

EDWARD  J.  BING,  Corp.  See  Obituary. 

JOEL  M.  ANDERSON,  Corp.,  re-enl.  veteran,  and  was  wounded 

May  20,  1864.     Sent  to  the  hospital  in  Newark,  N.  J.,  and 

discharged  by  reason  of  his  wounds,  June  28,  1864. 
JOHN  S.  CLARK,  Corp.,  re-enl.  veteran.  See  Obituary. 

CHARLES  E.  PROVOST,  Corp.,  re-enl.  veteran.  See  Obituary. 
WILLIAM  LOWA,  Corp.  See  Obituary. 

JAMES  McGEE,  Corp.,  re-eril.  veteran  on  the  Stamford  quota, 

and  was  wounded  on  Morris  Island,  July  9,  1863. 
IRA  D.  JONES,  Corp.,  Jan.  30,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

WM.  H.  REYNOLDS,  Corp.,  re-enl.  veteran  on  the  Stamford 

quota. 

GEORGE  LORD,  Musician. 
CHARLES  H.  LOCKWOOD,  Musician,  was   trans.    Inv.  Corps, 

July  1,  1863. 

FREDERICK  BATES,  Wagoner,  re-enl.  veteran,  Jan.  4,  Ib64. 
GEORGE  W.  ANDERSON,  re-enl.  veteran,  and  discharged  by 

President's  Proclamation. 

EDWARD  ARENTS,  was  trans,  to  Inv.  Corps  Sept.  1,  1863. 
SETH  S.  BOUTON,  re-enl.  and  was  captured  June  1Y,  1864. 
JOHN  BOHAN,  was  discharged  for  disability  May  24, 1863,  and 

re-enl.  Co.  I,  10th  Conn. 

FRANK  BRYSON,  re-enl.  veteran.  See  Obituary. 

DENNIS  BURNS,  was  wounded  at  I^ocotaligo  and  trans,  to 

Inv.  Corps. 


MILITARY    SERVICE. CO.    D,    SIXTH    CONN.  55 

JOHN  CLARK,  re-enl.  veteran. 

WILLIAM  H.  COYNE,  re-enl.  veteran  and  reported  as  desert- 
ing April  16,  1864. 

ALBERT  W.  CROCKER,  was  wounded  at  Pocotaligo  in  the  foot 
and  re-enl.  veteran  with  the  company. 

THOMAS  CRAW,  re-enl.  veteran. 

ALONZO  DIXON,  re-enl.  veteran. 

JOHN  DREW,  re-enl.  veteran. 

DAVID  FINCH,  was  trans,  to  Inv.  Corps,  Sept.  1,  1863. 

CHARLES  E.  FINCH,  re-enl.  veteran. 

DANIEL  FREEMAN.  See  Obituary. 

JOHN  GRADY,  was  wounded  severely  in  the  hand  at  Fort 
Wagner,  July  18,  1863. 

JOHN  F.  HASSENAU,  living  in  Greenwich,  re-enl.  veteran  from 
Stamford,  was  taken  prisoner  and  escaped. 

liuFER  HOUNSLOW,  re-enl.  veteran. 

GEORGE  HOYT,  was  honorably  discharged  at  the  end  of  his 

term  of  enlistment,  Sept.  11,  1864. 

HENRY  W.  HOYT.  See  Obituary. 

JOHN  L.  HOYT,  was  discharged  to  re-enl.  into  the  U.  S.  army. 
JAMES  II.  JERMAN,  enlisted  Sept.  6,  1862,  and  after  being  on 

detailed  service  at  Fort  Trmnbull,  Conn.,  and  elsewhere, 

joined  his  regiment  in  May,  1865. 
JAMES  JONES,  re-enl.  veteran. 

JOSEPH  JONES.  See  Obituary. 

GEORGE  W.  KENT,  was  discharged  for  disabilitv  April   29, 

1863. 

JAMES  L.  LOOKWOOD,  re-enl.  veteran.  See  Obituary. 

LEWIS  LOWER,  re-enl.  veteran. 
HOBERT  MoDoNALD,  re-enl.  veteran,  and  was  taken  prisoner 

near  Bermuda  Hundred,  and  was  sent  to  Andersonville 

and  other  rebel  prisons.     He  was  paroled  Dec.  13,  1864. 
JOHN  A.  MILKS.  See  Obituary. 

MICHAEL    MORGAN,  re-enl.    vet.     Had    one    arm  broken    at 

Morris  Island,  and   was  honorably  disch.  Sept.  11,  1864. 


56  STAMFORD   SOLDIERS5    MEMORIAL. 

WILLIAM  A.  MOREHOUSE.  See  Obituary. 

SILAS  NORTHRUP,  re-enl.  veteran,  and  was  wounded  in  the 

shoulder. 

FRANK  O'BRIEN,  re-enl.  veteran,  wounded  May  15,  IN 64. 
WM.  S.  PEATT,  re-enl.  veteran.  See  Obituary. 

THOMAS  PICKER,  re-enl.   vet.,  and  taken  prisoner  June  17, 

1864. 

PATSY  PICKER,  enl.  Sept.  19,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

JAMES  A.  POTTS,  re-enl.  veteran. 
EDGAR  L.  PRATT,  re-enl.  veteran,  Jan.  4,  1 863,  and  wounded 

May  15,  1864. 

ANDREW  PROVOST,  wounded  at  Pocotaligo  in  the  arm,  and 
hon.  disch.  May  28,  1863. 

HENRY  SCOFIELD  re-enl.  veteran,  and  was  wounded  May  20, 
1864,  in  one  knee,  and  again  at  Deep  Run  the  following 
August. 

SMITH  SOOFIELD  wounded  at  Pocotaligo,  and  again  May  16, 

1864,  near  Bermuda  Hundred,  and  was  four  months  in 

hospital. 
EDWARD  SEARLES,  re  enl.  veteran,  and  was  wounded  May  10, 

1864  in  left  hand. 
GEORGE  E.  SEARLES,  re-enl.  veteran  and  taken  prisoner  Jur.e 

17,  1864,  and  sent  south. 

EDWARD  M.  SEELY.  See  Obituary.  . 

IRVING  L.  SNIFFIN,  re-enl.  veteran  on  the  Stamford  quota 

with  the  company. 

JOHN  S.  SPARKS,  was  disch.  for  disability  April  22,  1863. 
GEORGE  C.  SWATHAL,  re-enl.  veteran.  See  Obituary. 

OSCAR  E.  SNYDER,  re-enl.  veteran  on  the  Stamford  quota. 
BARNEY  TONAR,  re-enl.  vet.  was  taken  prisoner  Jane  17, 1864. 
MARINUS  W.  THORN,  re-enl.  veteran.  See  Obituary. 

JOSEPH  A  TOEPFER  re-enl.  veteran  on  the  Stamford  quota. 
OLIVER  "W.  VERNAL  re-enl.  veteran,  and  was  twice  wounded. 
CHARLES  C.  WALTERS,  re-enl.  vet. 
EDWARD  H.  WALTERS  re-enl.  vet.,  and   transferred   to  Inv. 


MILITARY    SERVICE. CO.    D,    SIXTH    CONN.  0< 

Res.  Corps.,  March  15,  1864.  He  was  honorably  dis- 
charged in  October,  1865. 

JOHN  D.  WARD,  re-enl.  veteran  on  the  Stamford  quota. 

CHARLES  H.  WEED,  re-enl.  vet.,  Jan.  4,  1864,  and  was 
wounded  at  Pocotaligo,  and  again  in  one  arm.  May  10, 1864. 

JOHN  A.  YOUNGS  was  detailed,  on  reaching  the  South,  as 
captain  of  a  squad  of  carpenters.  He  rendered  good  ser- 
vice to  the  cause  here,  by  his  account  of  the  hardships  of 
our  soldiers,  while  on  shipboard  and  in  the  swamps  of 
South  Carolina.  He  was  discharged  for  disability,  May 
24,  1803. 

RECRUITS. 

.JAMES  WRIGHT,  Co.  B,  enlisted  Sept.  12,  1861,  and  was  dis- 
charged to  enlist  into  the  IT.  S.  Army. 

DE  FOREST  W.  FERRIS,  Co.  E,  March  11, 1862,  commissioned 
2d  Lieut.  Feb.  2,  1865,  and  mustered  out  August  21st  of 
the  same  year. 

EDWARD  M.  ABBOT,  Co.  A,  March  16,  1864. 

GEORGE  BROWN,  Co.  B,  Jan.  29,  1862. 

*WILLIAM  BKOWN,  Co.  A,  Oct.  15,  1863. 

*HARRY  BUSH,  Co.  D,  Feb.  16,  1864. 

JAMES  B.  CUNNINGHAM,  Co,  D,  Dec.  31,  1863. 

*CARL  DIKNER,  Co.  B,  Oct.  20,  1863. 

*CHARLKS  DRKWER,  Co.  F,  Oct  15,  1863. 

ISAAC  DINGKR,  Co.  D,  Fob,  20,  1864. 

PATRICK  Fox,  Co.  D,  Nov.  7,  1862. 

*EUGKNE  GAY,  Co.  H,  Oct.  15,  1863. 

STEPHEN  GANUNG,  Co.  A,  Feb.  25,  1864. 

WILLIAM  HALPIN,  from  Co.  H,  28th  Conn.,  Co.  D,  Sept.  5, 
1864,  mustered  out  June  26,  1865,  at  Goldsborough. 

GEORGE  HANFORD,  Co.  B,  Feb.  29,  1862. 

JOSEPH  HOOVEY,  Co.  F,  Oct.  15,  1863. 

JOHN  HUNTER,  Co  F,  Oct.  14,  1863. 

JOHN  J.  HAIGHT,  Co.  I),  Dec.  9,  1863. 
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58  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS5    MEMORIAL. 

JOHN  HULL,  Co.  A,  Feb.  26,  1864. 
THERON  B.  JUNE,  (?)  Feb.  25, 1864. 
*HENRY  JACKSON,  Co.  C,  Aug.  15,  1863. 
CHARLES  H.  KREIG,  Co.  E,  Jan.  29,  1862. 
^FREDERICK  KAPF,  Co.  C,  Oct.  12, 1863. 
JOHN  LAWLER,  Co.  B,  Jan  29,  1862. 
CHAS.  M.  LOCKWOOD,  Co.  K,  Jan.  29,  1862. 

*  JAMES  MORANN,  Co.  G,  Oct.  10,  1863. 

*  JAMES  MORRISS,  Co.  K,  Oct.  15,  1863.  , 
*CHARLES  NEWMAN,  Co.  H,  Oct.  16,  1863. 

WILLIAM  C.  OAKS,  Co.  B,  Feb.  19,  1862,  discharged  for 
disability  Nov.  9,  1862 ;  re-mus.  Jan.  19,  1864. 

DAVID  0.  PALMER,  Co.  A,  Feb.  19,  1862.      See  Obituary. 

JOHN  W.  FENDER,  Co.  B,  Feb.  24,  1862.  f 

GEORGE  G.  SMITH,  Co.  B,  Feb.  27,  1862. 

THEOPHILUS  F.  SMITH,  Co.  B,  Feb.  25,  1862. 

FRANCIS  L.  STILL,  Co.  B,  Feb.  11,  1862  ;  transferred  to  sig- 
nal corps  U.  S.  Army. 

THEODORE  C.  SCOFIELD,  Co.  K,  March  1,  1862.  See  Obituary. 
CLARENCE   E.  SEARLES,  Co.  D,  Feb.  16,  1864;  wounded  in 

the  arm  at  Deep  Run. 
*JOHN  TRECHARDT,  Co.  K,  Oct  14,  1863. 
ORLANDO  TOWNSEND,  Co.  D,  Feb.  2, 1864. 
BENJ.  S.  TIMSON,  Co.  D,  Feb.  20,  1864. 
NEHEMIAH  TAYLOR,  Co.  D,  Feb.  23,  1864. 
SAMUEL  WATERBURY,  Co.  D,  Jan.  2,  1864. 
JOHN  W.  DASKAM.  See  Obituary. 


Those  with  an  asterisk  (*)  were  substitutes  or  drafted  men. 


MILITARY    SERVICE. TENTH  CONN.  59 

TENTH    CONN. 

COLONELS    CHAS.    L.  RUSSEL,   ALBERT  W.  DRAKE,  IRA  W. 

PETTIBONE,  JOHN  L.  OTIS,  GEORGE  W.  WHITE 

AND  EDWIN  S.  GREELEY. 

In  Company  G  of  this  regiment,  when  it  left  Hartford, 
October  31,  1861,  Stamford  was  represented  by  eighteen 
men,  to  whom  were  afterwards  added  from  the  town,  in 
some  of  the  companies  of  the  regiment,  seventeen  new  names. 
None  of  the  Connecticut  regiments  won  more  distinction 
than  the  TENTH,  and  none  of  our  Stamford  companies  did 
the  town  more  credit  than  this.  Leaving  home  under  the 
captaincy  of  Isaac  L.  Iloyt,*  and  led  by  him,  until 
seized  by  the  disease  which  ended  in  his  death,  March  20, 
1862,  at  Newbern,  North  Carolina — no  company  in  any 
regiment  could  have  been  encouraged  by  the  example  of  a 
a  truer,  or  purer,  or  braver  captain.  Of  its  officers  from 
Stamford,  our  obituary  record  must  make  additional  report. 

The  regiment  on  receiving  their  colors,  were  forwarded  to 
Annapolis,  Md.  On  the  evening  of  November  6,  1861,  our 
men  embarked  with  seven  other  companies  on  board  the 
New  Brunswick,  under  Burnside,  in  his  memorable  North 
Carolina  expedition.  To  have  endured  uncomplainingly  all 
the  privations  and  discomforts  of  the  voyage  until  they,  at 
length,  swung  over  the  bar,  into  the  Sound  before  Roanoke, 
was  enough  to  commend  to  us  the  faithful  men  who  were 
serving  us.  But  let  one  of  these  townsmen,  then  "  orderly," 
afterwards  captain  Greaves,  show  us  what  more  than  this 
uncomplaining  endurance,  what  soldierly  daring,  also,  these 
men  had  to  commend  them. 

The  letter  from  which  we  copy  bears  date  Feb.  28,  1862, 
and  this  is  its  story  :— "  We  finally  left  Hatteras,  and  after 
crawling  carefully  up  the  Sound  for  two  or  three  days,  we 

*See  Stamford  History,  page  307. 


60  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS5    MEMORIAL. 

met  the  object  of  our  visit — old  Secesh,  and  gave  him  a 
salute.  He  was  rather  gruff  and  resentful  of  course,  so  we 
taught  him  a  lesson  or  two  in  the  art  of  throwing  iron  balls 
filled  with  a  funny  material  which  set  fire  to  his  wooden 
ware,  and  sent  destruction  to  his  domicile.  He  concluded  to 
cut  our  acquaintance  for  a  while,  but  the  next  morning  he 
was  around  again.  Then  came  the  tug  of  war.  February 
8th  was  a  day  long  to  be  remembered  by  those  who  took 
part  in  this  conflict.  We  waded  in  mud  and  water  to  land,  and 
fought  in  water  and  marsh  till  the  cowards  ran  like  sheep." 

In  another  letter,  he  gives  us  this  sketch  of  the  struggle  : — 
"  At  daylight  the  signal  was  given  and  we  prepared  for 
battle.  In  a  few  moments  the  battery  took  the  lead, 
followed  by  the  23d  and  27th  Massachusetts,  each  with 
ambulance  corps  in  the  rear,  and  then  came  the  Tenth  Con- 
necticut. The  pickets  maneuvered  for  some  time  in  advance 
of  us,  but  at  eight  o'clock  the  enemy's  pickets  had  been 
driven  in,  and  the  famous  three-gun  masked  battery  opened 
upon  the  head  of  our  column.  We  progressed  very  slowly 
and  were  soon  met  by  the  ambulance  corps  bringing  back 
their  boys  that  were  killed  or  wounded.  A  few  moments 
more  and  the  Tenth  Connecticut  was  drawn  up,  directly  in 
front  of  the  battery,  about  three  hundred  yards  distance, 
while  the  Massachusetts  boys  worked  themselves  on  either 
flank.  Then  came  a  dreadful  volley  of  shot  and  shell,  grape 
and  canister,  which  was  answered  by  our  battery  and 
muskets.  The  rebels  gave  it  to  us,  in  perfect  hail  storms, 
for  a  while,  and  our  boys  stood  up  with  a  bold  front  for  two 
and  a  half  hours,  without  a  flinch." 

Let  us  follow  our  boys  a  little  further  under  the  lead  of 
the  same  graceful  pen,  and  see  how  they  managed  another 
little  affair  for  the  good  cause,  in  whose  service  they  were 
now  fairly  embarked. 


MILITARY   SERVICE. TENTH    CONN.  61 

"  After  our  boys  had  taken  Elizabeth  City,  they  saw  a 
schooner  in  the  distance  and  steamed  for  it,  After  coming 
along  side,  they  hailed  the  schooner  in  the  right  nautical 
style,  '  Whither  bound  ?'  '  Norfolk,  with  provisions,'  was 
the  captain's  reply. 

" '  Please  make  fast,'  promptly  responded  our  officer  in 
command,  '  we'll  take  charge  of  your  fixings.' 

"  The  captain,  with  eyes  fast  opening  to  the  situation, 
exclaimed,  '  Who  to  thunder  are  you,'  but  at  the  same 
moment  catching  a  glimpse  of  the  Stars  and  Stripes,  and 
expressed  his  peculiar  astonishment  by  looks  such  as  pen 
cannot  describe. 

"  We  found  the  schooner  loaded  with  chickens,  eggs,  &c., 
which,  of  course,  Commodore  G-oldsborough  can  appropriate 
to  good  advantage." 

We  will  dwell  a  little  longer  with  our  Tenth  boys,  and 
hear  our  "  orderly,"  who,  at  this  date  had  become  captain, 
report  to  us  their  part  in  the  Kingston  battle  of  Dec.  14, 
1862. 

"  On  the  morning  of  the  14-th,  at  eight  o'clock,  began  the 
hardest  fought  battle  that  this  Department  has  yet  seen.  It 
lasted  some  six  hours,  and  closed  by  the  Tenth  Connecticut 
charging  on  the  bridge  and  driving  the  men  from  their 
position.  We  suffered  terribly,  losing  nearly  a  third  of  the 
men  we  took  into  action.  I  took  only  thirty-three  men  into 
action  and  lost  nine.  Lieut.  Simms  was  badly  wounded  in 
the  left  shoulder,  and  is  quite  low.  I  was  again  among  the 
uninjured.  Though  at  the  head  of  my  company,  and  in 
front  of  them  in  the  charge,  !  did  not  receive  a  scratch.  It 
wras  a  sorry  day  with  the  '  Old  Tenth.'  but  she  won  golden 
honors  of  which  she  may  be  proud.  After  we  had  taken 
some  250  prisoners  and  had  got  possession  of  Kingston,  (-ren. 
Foster  came  past,  and  the  boys  gave  him  three  hearty  cheers. 


62  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS'    MEMORIAL. 

He  stopped  his  horse,  and  taking  off  his  hat  said  :  '  I  never 
can  pass  the  Tenth  Connecticut  without  saying  something. 
You  have  been  with  me  through  three  hard  fought  battles, 
and  to-day  you  have  shown  yourselves  as  you  have  always 
done,  '  the  bravest  of  the  brave.' ' 

"  From  Kingston  we  went  to  Whitehall  where  we  had 
another  fight,  which  lasted  some  two  hours.  Our  regiment 
was  under  fire  most  of  the  time.  We  then  marched  to  the 
railroad  bridge,  six  miles  south  of  Goldsborough,  where  we 
had  another  battle,  in  which  our  artillery  told  fearfully  on 
the  ranks  of  the  rebels.  We  drove  them  away  and  burned 
the  bridge  and  spiles  on  which  ,the  road  was  built  for  some 
distance,  and  then  returned  to  Newbern  after  an  absence  of 
ten  days.  We  had  marched  175  miles  and  fought  three 
battles.  We  are  now  foot  sore  and  weary,  but  expect  in  a 
few  days  to  look  after  the  enemy  again,  on  another  expedi- 
tion of  still  greater  magnitude." 

But  we  must  not  dwell  thus  minutely  on  the  several 
engagements  in  which  this  veteran  regiment  was  engaged 
through  the  war.  At  the  close  of  the  period  for  which  our 
Stamford  men  had  enlisted,  every  man  of  them,  who  was 
still  living,  re-enlisted.  And  they  were  found,  those  of  them 
who  had  strength  enough  left  to  follow  in  the  army  of  the 
Union,  as  earnest  in  their  devotion  to  the  good  cause  in  the 
last  needed  victory  of  Appomattox,  July  9, 1865,  as  they  had 
been  in  their  earliest  victories  of  Roanoke  and  Kingston. 

A  public  presentation  of  a  bronze  eagle,  on  the  13th  of 
June,  1865,  was  Maj-Gen.  Gibbon's  testimonial  to  the  gal- 
lantry of  the  Tenth  in  the  assault  on  Fort  Gregg,  July  2, 
1865.  It  was  not  exaggerated  praise  which  was  given  this 
regiment  after  three  years'  service  :  "  It  has  ever  held  a 
foremost  place  in  its  brigade,  its  corps,  and  its  department ; 
and  to-day  no  regiment  in  the  entire  army  stands  higher  for 


MILITARY    SERVICE. CO.    G,    TENTH    CONN.  63 

gallantry,  for  discipline,  for  good  morals,  and  for  general 
efficiency." 

The  list  of  engagements  in  which  the  Tenth  participated, 
as  given  in  the  Adjutant-General's  report  for  1866,  are, 
Roanoke  Island,  Feb.  8,  1862;  Newborn,  N.  C.,  March  14, 
1862;  Kingston,  N.  C.,  Dec.  14,  1862;  Whitehall,  N.  C., 
Dec.  16,  1862 ;  Seabrook  Island,  S.  C.,  March  28,  1863  ; 
Siege  of  Charleston,  S.  C.,  from  July  28  to  Oct.  25,  1863  ; 
Near  St.  Augustine,  Fla.,  Dec.  30,  1863  ;  Walthall  Junction, 
Ya.,  May  7,  1864 ;  Drury's  Bluff,  Ya.,  May  13  to  17,  1864; 
Bermuda  Hundred,  Ya.,  June  16, 1864  ;  Strawberry  Plains, 
Ya.,  July  26  and  27,  1864;  Deep  Bottom,  Ya.,  Aug.  1st, 
and  again  Aug.  14,  1864;  Deep  Run,  Ya.,  Aug.  16,  1864; 
Siege  of  Petersburg,  Ya.,  Aug.  28  to  Sept.  29.  1864 ;  Laurel 
Hill  Church,  Ya.,  Oct.  1, 1864  ;  New  Market  Road,  Ya.,  Oct. 
7, 1864 ;  Darbytown  Road,  Ya.,  Oct.  13  and  27,  1864  ;  John- 
son's Plantation,  Ya.,  Oct.  29,  1864  ;  Hatcher's  Run,  Ya., 
March  29  and  30,  and  April  1,  1865  ;  Fort  Gregg,  Ya.,  April 
2,  1865,  and  Appomattox  Court  House,  Ya.,  April  9,  1865. 

COMPANY  G. 

Mustered  in  October  2.  1861,  re-enlisted  veteran  January  1,  1864,  and  mustered  out  August 

25,  1865. 

BENJAMIN  L.  GREAVES,  chosen  corporal  on  enlistment,  Oct. 
2,  1861,  1st  sergeant,  Jan.  1,  1862,  and  commissioned  2d 
Lieut.  May  20th,  1st  Lieut.  Aug.  25th,  and  Capt.  Oct. 
25th  of  same  year  ;  mustered  out  on  expiration  of  term  of 
service,  Oct.  25,  1864.  See  Obituary. 

THEODORE  MILLER,  commissioned  2d  Lieut.  Sept.  25,  1861, 

and  resigned  Dec.  4  of  the  same  year.     His  name  appears 

again  with  the  139th  N.  Y.  State  Militia. 
JOHN  M.  SIMMS,  mustered  in   Oct.  9,  1861,  as  2d  sergeant. 

Promoted  2d  Lieut.  Aug.  15,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

ANDREW  F..  JONES,  re-enl.  veteran,  and  com.  2d  Lieut.  Jan. 

7,   1865,  and  wounded  at   Fort    Gregg,  a  native  of  the 

town,  now  in  New  Canaan. 


64  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS'   MEMORIAL. 

HENRY  M.  CAPPER,  sergeant,  Oct.  2,  1861.  After  a  good 
record  at  the  battle  of  Roanoke  Island,  Feb.  8,  1862,  he 
was  also  in  the  engagement  at  Newbern  of  March  14, 
Having  become  lame  he  fell  behind  his  company,  when  a 
solid  shot  shattered  his  right  ankle,  making  amputation 
necessary.  The  leg  was  taken  off  above  the  knee,  and  at 
evening  of  the  next  day,  he  was  taken  to  the  hospital  at 
Newbern.  His  cheerful  courage  here  never  failed  him, 
and  proved  a  God-send  to  many  other  wounded  comrades. 
He  was  honorably  discharged  from  the  service,  Sept.  21, 

1 862,  and  is  now  living  in  New  Britain. 

ALFRED  C.  ARNOLD,  Aug.  28,  1862.  He  served  twenty 
months  in  the  Quarter  Master's  department  at  Fort  Trum- 
bul],  Conn.,  and  a  year  in  conscript  camp.  He  joined 
the  regiment  in  Richmond  in  May,  1865,  and  was  dis- 
charged June  15,  1865. 

MORRIS  CARROL,  was  wounded  May  13,  1864.  See  Obituary. 

SAMUEL  B.  HOYT,  disch.  for  dis.  Oct.  31, 1861.  See  Obituary. 

ALFRED  N.  HUSTED,  corporal,  and  re-enl.  veteran. 

THOMAS  S.  INGERSOLL,  re-enl.  veteran.  See  Obituary. 

RUFUS  S.  KNAPP,  re-enl.  veteran. 

SMITH  O.  KEELER,  Oct.  9,  1861,  from  Ridgefield.  On  the 
skirmish  line  between  Newbern  and  Kingston  he  was 
struck  by  a  ball  which,  entering  the  palm  of  his  hand, 
passed  up  the  arm  to  the  elbow.  This  being  bent,  the 
ball  passed  out,  leaving  the  forearm  so  completely  shat- 
tered, that  amputation  was  necessary.  He  was  honorably 
discharged  Dec.  10,  1862,  and  with  his  family  has  been 
living  here  since  1863. 

GEORGE  E.  LOCKWOOD,  Oct.  16, 1861,  discharged  Oct.  28, 1861. 
SIDNEY  R.  LOUNSBURY,  re-enl.  veteran,  Feb.  19,  1864. 
JAMES  LYNOTT,  re-enl.  veteran. 

EDMOND  G.  NUGENT,  Oct.  9, 1861,  and  re-enl.  vet.  Feb.  6, 1864. 
NICHOLAS  N.  NICHOLS  was  discharged  for  disability  Feb.  22, 

1863.  Two  others  of  his  brothers,  Joseph  and  John,  both 
natives  of  the  town,  were  in  the  service  during  the  war, 
though  not  on  the  Stamford  quota. 


MILITARY   SERVICE. TENTH    CONN.  65 

REUBEN  PEATT,  re-enl.  veteran.  See  Obituary. 

SAMUEL  S.  RAMBO,  re-enl.  veteran,  Feb.  6,  1864. 
SYLVANUS    SMITH   was  discharged   for   disability,   Dec.    18, 
1861,  and  re-enl.  into  the  28th  Conn.         See  Obituary. 

HENRY  TUCKER,  Oct.  26,  1861,  was  a  native  of  Stamford, 
and  was  discharged  for  disability,  March  27,  1863.  He 
re-enl.  Dec.  24,  1863,  and  was  wounded  in  the  hip,  Oct. 
13,  1864. 

ISAAC  L.  TUCKER,  Oct.  26,  1861,  also  a  native,  re-enl.  Dec. 
24,  1863. 

JOHN  WHALEY  was   wounded    at  Deep  Bottom,  Aug.    14, 
1864. 
To  the  above  we  should  add  the  following  : 

ALFRED  BISHOP,  who  enlisted  with  the  company  and  drilled 
with  them  in  Hartford,  until  an  attack  of  bleeding  at  the 
lungs  disabled  him.  He  afterwards  applied  to  be  mus- 
tered in  and  was  rejected,  but  on  being  drafted  still  later, 
was  passed  by  the  surgeon.  Finding  himself  unable  to 
bear  the  exposure,  he  procured  a  substitute,  entitling  him- 
self certainly  to  an  honorary  membership  in  the  volunteer 
force. 

RECRUITS. 

JAMES  M.  CRAGUR,  Co.  C.,  Jan.  28,  1804. 
BENJAMIN  (i.  BLAKE,  Co.  D.,  Sept.  1,  1862. 
JOHN  B.  NEWELL,  Aug,  6,  1862,  Co.  D.     Commissioned  2d 
Lieut.  Jan.  7,  1865,  and  mustered  out  Aug.  25,  1865. 

JAMES  BARBER,  Co.  H.,  Dec.  26,  1863. 

JOHN  Bon  AN.  Co.  1,  Dec.  26,  1863.  See  Obituary. 

JOSEPH  CORRIS,  Co.  1,  Jan.  5,  1864. 

WM.  II.  FERRIS,  Co.  I,  Dec.  28,  1863. 

WM.  L.  HAYS,  Co.  I,  Jan.  25,  1863. 

AARON  J.  MOGER,  Co.  I,  Jan.  1,  1864. 

AARON  J.  SHERWOOD,  Co.  I,  Jan.  1,  1864. 

JOHN  SHERWOOD,  Co.  I,  Jan.  1,  1805. 
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66  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS5    MEMORIAL. 

SEVENTEENTH    CONN. 
COLONEL  WM.  H.  NOBLE. 

In  Company  B  of  this  regiment  the  town  was  represented 
by  seventy-seven  men  when  it  left  Camp  Aiken,  Bridgeport, 
September  3,  1862,  for  the  seat  of  war.  Before  the  war 
closed,  in  this,  or  in  other  companies  of  the  regiment,  nine 
other  Stamford  names  were  added  to  the  list.  Their  first 
service  was  at  Fort  Marshall,  Baltimore,  Md.,  where  they 
remained  about  a  month,  a  part  of  the  time  sleeping  on 
their  arms,  in  expectation  of  an  attack  from  Gen.  Lee. 
After  aiding  in  erecting  defenses  at  Fort  Kearney,  they  were 
ordered,  November  3d,  to  report  to  Gen.  Sigel,  of  the 
Eleventh  Corps.  Marching  to  Thoroughfare  Gap,  beyond 
Centreville,  and  finding  no  enemy,  the  regiment  went  into 
camp  at  Chantilly.  They  soon  went  into  winter  quarters  at 
Brooks'  Station.  The  reveille,  ot  April  27,  1863,  called  our 
men  again  to  the  field,  and,  "  fighting  mit  Sigel,"  there 
was  no  rest  for  them  again  until  after  the  sharp  work  at 
Chancellorsville  of  May  2d,  and  our  shattered  and  worn  men 
had,  without  tents,  without  blankets,  and  on  half  rations, 
recrossed  the  Rappahannock  "  and  crawled  back  wearily  to 
Brooks'  Station."  Our  roll  will  show  that  our  men  did  not 
all  return,  and  that  of  those  who  returned,  not  all  were 
unscathed  by  the  fiery  touch  of  war. 

Again,  July  1st  summoned  our  company  to  action.  Meade 
has  now  the  command,  and  he  means  to  drive  back  the 
invaders  from  off  Pennsylvania  and  across  the  last  foot  of 
Maryland  soil.  By  the  time  the  two  armies  had  come  well 
into  striking  distance,  on  the  immortal  field  of  Gettysburg, 
our  townsmen  in  the  Seventeenth  are  found  occupying  a 
perilous  post  on  the  front,  in  the  right  center,  defending 
Cemetery  Hill.  Again  and  again  the  exultant  rebels  charge 
upon  the  position,  and  as  often  they  were  met  by  the  steady 


MILITARY    SERVICE. SEVENTEENTH     CONN.  67 

and  effective  volleys  which  thinned  and  staggered  their 
ranks,  and  which,  at  length,  drove  them  back  upon  the 
town,  broken  and  dispirited.  No  thunder  of  artillery,  TIO 
screaming  and  crashing  of  shot  or  shell,  no  savage  onset  of 
Louisiana  Tigers  even,  though  thunder,  and  shot,  and  shell, 
and  "  Tigers"  were  hurled  upon  every  sensibility  they  had, 
for  those  three  mortal  days,  could  chill  the  ardor  of  the 
daring  men  who  there  stood  our  representatives  on  that 
Thermopylae  of  our  strife.  No  company  of  Stamford  men 
did  severer  or  more  daring  work  than  this  company  found  at 
Gettysburg.  Our  roll,  at  the  end  of  this  sketch,  will  report 
those  of  our  men  who  fell,  and  those  who  were  wounded  or 
captured  during  these  engagements. 

As  soon  as  they  were  permitted,  our  men  are  eagerly  on 
the  pursuit.  By  the  12th  they  reached  Hagerstown,  and 
captured  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  prisoners.  Early  in 
August,  the  Seventeenth  were  ordered  to  Folly  Island,  and 
their  gallant  Colonel,  now  in  charge  of  a  brigade,  is  sent 
with  a  thousand  men  to  the  trenches  before  Fort  Wagner. 

February  23, 1864,  they  leave  Folly  Island  for  Jacksonville, 
Fla.  April  25th  they  start  on  a  foraging  raid  out  to  Volusia, 
seventy-five  miles  up  the  river  from  St.  Augustine,  and  were 
successful.  In  May,  Gen.  Birney  established  pickets  at 
Welaka  and  Saunders,  eighty  miles  from  St.  Augustine,  and 
left  Captain  Hobby  and  Lieut.  Harvey,  with  portions  of 
Company  B,  in  command  ;  and  May  19th,  thus  exposed, 
they  are  surprised  and  captured  by  rebel  cavalry.  Our  roll 
will  also  report  these  sons  of  the  town  in  the  personal 
sacrifices  which  they  thus  made  for  the  cause. 

The  Adjutant-General  of  Connecticut,  in  his  Iveport  of 
1866,  names  as  the  principal  engagements  in  which  this 
regiment  participated,  as  :  Chancellorsville,  May  2,  1863  ; 
Gettysburg,  July  lst-4th,  1863;  Welaka  and  Saunders, 


68  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS'    MEMORIAL. 

Fla.,  May   19,  1864;  and  Dunn's  Lake,  Fla.,  February  5, 
1865. 

After  being  mustered  out  at  Hilton  Head,  the  regiment 
left  for  home,  reaching  .New  Haven,  August  3,  1865. 

COMPANY  B. 

The  men  on  this  Roll  were  mustered  in  separately  in  1862,  and  mustered  out  with  the 
regiment,  July  19,  1865. 

ALLEN  G.  BRADY,  Captain,  Aug.  1,  and  promoted  Major, 
Au£.  29,  1862.  He  had  already  done  good  service  as 
Lieut.-Col.  in  the  Third  Conn.,  and  approved  himself  as 
an  energetic  and  daring  officer.  He  was  wounded  at 
Gettysburg,  and  was  discharged  for  disability,  Oct.  21, 
1863,  having  been  appointed  Major  in  the  Invalid  Corps. 

MARCUS  WATERBURY,  commissioned  Second  Lieut.  July  22, 
promoted  First  Lieut.  July  21,  1862,  and  Capt.  Co.  I, 
Aug.  22,  1863.  He  was  much  on  detailed  duty  during 
his  service.  At  Chancellorsville,  while  repelling  an  attack 
on  his  flank,  he  was  captured,  with  a  number  of  his  men, 
by  a  sudden  movement  from  the  front.  After  a  month's 
imprisonment  in  Libby,  he  was  exchanged.  Both  in  his 
earlier  and  in  his  veteran  service  he  won  the  name  of  a 
good  soldier  and  most  excellent  officer. 

CHARLES  A.  HOBBY,  First  Lieut.,  Aug.  1st,  and  promoted 
Capt.  Aug  29,  1862.  One  of  six  brothers,  the  sons  of 
Harvey  Hobby,  who  were  in  the  service,  he  made  one  of 
our  best  captains — considerate,  careful,  yet  fearless  and 
ready  to  share  any  danger  to  which  he  called  his  command. 
He  was  wTounded  May  2,  1863,  at  Brooks'  Station,  and 
taken  prisoner,  with  his  command,  May  19,  1864-,  in 
Florida. 

EDGAR  HOYT,  First  Sergt.,  Aug.  6th,  commissioned  Second 
Lieut,,  Aug.  29,  1862,  when  his  friends,  of  whom  he  had, 
as  editor  of  our  local  paper,  won  many,  presented  him, 
through  the  Hon.  M.  F.  Merritt,  a  splendid  sword,  sash 
and  belt.  Receiving  an  injury  on  the  railroad  between 
Washington  and  Baltimore,  in  the  spring  of  1863,  he  was 
compelled  to  resign  May  12,  1863. 


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JOHN  HARVEY,   Sergt.,  July  25,  1862,  commissioned  First 

Lieut.,    Sept.  19,   1863,    and  promoted    Capt.,  June  29, 

1865. 
GEO.    A.    SCOFIELD,    Sergt.,   July    24,    1862.      Was    taken 

prisoner  May  19, 1864,  and  released  in. the  spring  of  1865. 
LEWIS  W.  SCOFIELD,  Corp.,  July  28,  1864,   was  promoted 

sergeant,  and  taken  prisoner  at  Welaka,  May  19,  1864. 
EDWIN  O.  HARBISON,  Sergt.,  July  11,  1862.     Taken  prisoner 

May  2,  1863. 

SELAH  R.  HOBBY,  July  28,  and  promoted  Sergt.  He  was 
wounded  at  Gettysburg,  and  taken  prisoner  in  Florida, 
May  19,  1864. 

MURRAY  IT.  MACREA,  Corp.,  July  22,  1862,  and  promoted 

Sergt.  See  Obituary. 

ALFRED  "V.  SCOFIELD,  Aug.  11,  1862,  and  chosen  corporal. 

He  was  captured  May  19,  1864. 

EDWIN  B.  JESSUP,  Corp.,  July  21,  1862.      See  Obituary. 
CHRISTOPHER    STOTTLAR,  Corp.,  July  »21,    1862.      He   was 

taken  prisoner  May  19,  1864. 
EDSON  C.  BEARDSLEY,  Corp.,  July  21,  1862. 
MARTIN  CASH,  corporal,  July  23,  1862  ;  was  taken  prisoner 

in  Florida,  May  19,  1864,  and  sent  to  Andersonville.      He 

was  honorably  discharged  Nov.  25,  1864. 

HENRY  I.  LOUNSBURY,  musician,  July  23, 1862.      Discharged 

for  disability,  Feb.  Y,  1863. 
WILLIAM  DUNHAM,  musician,  July   25,  1862,  transferred  to 

Invalid  Corps,  Sept.  1,  1863. 
JOHN  II.  CIIADWICK,  Wagoner,  July  18,  1862. 

ELBERT  AYRES,  July  18,  1862 ;  was  taken  prisoner  at 
Chancellorsville  and  sent  to  Richmond,  and  again  cap- 
tured with  his  company  in  Florida. 

DENNIS  BURNS,  Aua;.  11,  1862,  was  discharged  for  disa- 
bility Aug.  12,  1863. 

JOHN  BUTTRY,  Aug.  9,1862.  See  Obituary. 

GEORGE  B.  CHRISTISON,  Aug.  15,  1862,  was  wounded  at  Get- 
tysburg. 


70  STAMFORD   SOLDIERS5    MEMORIAL. 

EBENEZER  S.  CRABB,  July  22,  1862,  was  transferred  to 
Invalid  corps,  Feb.  15,  1864. 

JOHN  COLLINS,  July  28,  1862 ;  was  wounded  at  Gettysburg. 

GEORGE  W.  CHAMBERLAIN,  July  18, 1862,  transferred  to  U.  S. 
cavalry. 

MICHAEL  EGAN,  Aug.  12,  1862,  was  once  reported  as  a 
deserter.  A  later  report  from  one  of  the  officers  in  his 
company  amply  vindicates  his  character.  "  There  is  not 
a  more  respectful,  dutiful,  obedient  and  brave  soldier  in 
the  regiment." 

GEORGE  D.  FEEKS,  Aug.  11,  1862,  was  disch.  for  disability 
March  10,  1863,  and  re-enl.  Jan.  28,  1864.  See  Obituary. 

JOSEPH  FEEKS,  Aug.  6,  1862,  was  taken  prisoner  in  Florida, 
May  19,  1 864,  and  sent  to  Andersonville,  Florence,  Milieu. 

JOHN  FITZPATRICK,  Aug.  Ifc,  1862,  was  transferred  to  veteran 
Reserve  Corps  Oct.  17,  1864,  and  honorably  discharged 
July  13,  1865,  at  Elmira,  N.  Y. 

PATRICK  FITZPATICK,  Aug.  11.  1862;  was  transferred  to  the 
Pioneer  Corps. 

WILLIAM  FARNOLD,  Aug.  6,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

MICHAEL  Fox,  July  22,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

JOHN  FARREL,  July  19,  1862,  prisoner  at  Chancellors ville. 

WILLIAM  GILLESPIE,  July  31,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

THOMAS  R.  GRAHAM,  Aug.  9,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

SAMUEL  T.  HALL,  Aug.  2,  1862. 

JOHN  HARTMAN,  July  29,  1862,  re-enl.,  and  once  wounded. 

GEORGE  HEISER,  Aug.  9,  1862,  was  taken  prisoner  at  Chan- 
cellors ville  and  soon  released. 

MARTIN  HEISER,  July  15,  1862,  a  brother  to  GEORGE,  was 
transferred  to  Veteran  Reserve  Corps,  May  8,  1864,  and 
taken  prisoner  in  Florida,  Feb.  5,  1865. 

PATRICK  HENNESY,  July  18,  1862,  was  wounded  at  Chancel- 
lors ville. 

ELI  HOUNSLOW,  July  26,  1862. 

JOSEPH  N.  HOTT,  Aug.  4,  1862. 


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LORENZO  L.  HOYT,  July  25,  1862,  taken  prisoner  May  19, 
1864,  and  held  six  months.  He  was  at  length  discharged 
from  the  hospital  in  Hartford,  Aug.  5,  1865. 

WM.  H.  JACKSON,  July  25, 1862.  He  was  singularly  wounded 
at  Gettysburg,  in  the  midst  of  the  fight,  while  lying  down 
to  load.  The  ball  struck  him  between  the  shoulders,  and 
passed  under  the  skin,  down  the  entire  length  of  the  spine. 
He  was  transferred  to  the  Invalid  Corps,  Nov.  15,  1863, 
and  left  at  the  end  of  the  war,  with  the  record  of  a  good 
soldier. 

Jo  FIN  L.  JUNE,  Aug.  2,  1862,  was  wounded  at  Gettysburg, 
and  taken  prisoner  in  Florida,  May  19,  1864. 

JOHN  KELLKY,  2d,  July  28,  1862,  was  reported  on  the  State 
catalogue  as  deserting,  April  3,  1863. 

DANIEL  KENNEDY,  Aug.  7,  1862,  was  discharged  for  dis- 
ability, Jan.  16,  1863". 

JACOB  KREIG,  Aug.  5,  1862. 

GEORGE  W.  LINCOLN,  July  29,  1862,  was  wounded  at 
Chancellorsville,  and  transferred  to  Invalid  Corps,  July 
1,  1863. 

LEWIS  McDoNALD,  Aug.  11,  1862,  was  discharged  for  dis- 
ability, Jan.  19,  1864. 

GEO.  H.  MEEKER,  joined  this  company  in  the  spring  of 
1864,  and  was  mustered  out  with  the  regiment. 

CHARLES  E.  MORREL,  Aug.  6,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

HUGH  MAHAN,  July  18,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

RICHARD  MARLIN,  Aug.  8,  1862,  was  discharged  for  disability, 
July  30,  1863. 

LEWIS  FARKETON,  Aug.  1,  1862. 

JOSEPH  W.  POTTS,  Aug.  6,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

EDWARD  H.  QUIGLEY  was  taken  prisoner  at  Welaka,  Fla., 
and  after  a  trial  of  rebel  prison  life  in  Andersonville, 
Millen  and  Florence,  was  exchanged,  Feb.  27th,  and 
discharged  at  Fort  Schuyler,  June  10,  1865. 

JOHN  REPKE,  Aug.  11,  1862,  was  discharged  for  disabilitv, 
May  21,  1863. 


72  STAMFORD   SOLDIERS'   MEMORIAL. 

JACOB  STOTTLAR,  July  18,  1862,  was  transferred  to  invalid 
Corps,  Sept.  30,  1863. 

WILLIAM  T.  STEVENS,  July  21,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

ALBERT  STEVENS,  July  29,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

JAMES  THEODORE  SCOFIP:LD,  July  24,  1862. 

SAMUEL  SCOFIELD,  July  25,  1862,  was  discharged  by  court- 
martial,  Dec.  19, 1863. 

WILLIAM  H.  SCOFIELD,  Aug.  7,  1862,  was  discharged  for 
disability,  Feb.  9,  1863. 

EDWIN  L.  SMITH,  July  26,  1862,  was  transferred  to  Invalid 
Corps,  July  1,  1863,  and  to  Co.  A,  Ninth  U.  S.  Keserves. 

MORTIMER  SEARLES,  Aug.  6,  1862,  was  wounded  at  Gettys- 
burg, and  taken  prisoner  in  Florida,  May  19,  1864. 

GEORGE  STEINERT,  Aug.  7,  1862,  was  discharged  for  dis- 
ability, March  28,  1863. 

JOHN  SMALART,  Aug.  7,  1862,  is  reported  as  deserting  at 
Baltimore,  Sept.  28,  1862. 

JACOB  VANDERHOFF  was  taken  down  with  typhoid  fever 
before  the  regiment  went  to  the  front.  He  joined  the 
regiment  in  St.  Augustine,  Fla.,  in  the  spring  of  1864. 

EMANUEL  VANDERVALDT,  July  28,  1862,  and  reported 
deserting,  Sept.  4,  1862. 

JACOB  W.  VINCENT,  Aug.  5,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

JOSEPH  VOID,  July  22,  1862,  wounded  May  2,  1863,  and 
taken  prisoner  in  Florida,  May  19,  1864. 

JOHN  WESLEY  WALTERS,  Aug.  8,  1862,  was  taken  prisoner 
at  Chancellorsville,  May  2,  1863,  and  returned  to  the 
regiment  Oct.  12,  1863.  He  was  honorably  discharged 
July  17,  1865. 

GEORGE  WEED,  Aug.  2,  1862,  was  captured  in  Florida,  May 
19,  1864. 

EDWARD  WIIALEY,  Aug.  13,  1862,  taken  prisoner  in  Florida, 
May  19,  1864. 

JOHN  H.  WILSON,  Auj;.  6, 1862,  and  discharged  for  disability, 
Feb.  9:  1863. 

WILLIAM  WILLIAMS,  July  28,  1862,  was  reported  as  deserter, 
Sept.  4,  1862. 


MILITARY   SERVICE. TWENTY-EIGHTH    CONN.  73 

JOHN  D.  BUTTRY,  Co.  A,  Aug.  4, 1862,  wounded  in  the  leg, 
July  2,  1863,  at  Gettysburg,  taken  prisoner  and  sent  to 
Belle  Isle  ;  paroled  June  28th,  1864,  and  went  to  Had- 
dington  Hospital,  Philadelphia,  where  he  was  honorably 
discharged,  Aug.  27,  1864. 

SAMUEL  C.  MORRISON,  Co.  A,  Aug.  8,  1862,  from  Norwalk. 

JOHN  W.  STOCKTON,  Co.  E,  March  5,  1864. 

GEORGE  HOYT,  Co.  F,  Aug.  22,  1862,  from  Norwalk,  was 
taken  prisoner  at  Chancellorsville,  and  held  two  weeks  by 
the  rebels. 

LEVI  DIXON,  Co.  H,  Aug.  20,  1862,  had  his  right  leg 
shattered  at  Gettysburg,  July  1,  1863.  A  rebel  surgeon 
amputated  his  leg  on  the  2d,  and  on  the  4th  he  was  re- 
captured by  our  men  and  taken  into  hospital.  He  was 
honorably  discharged,  Oct.  4,  1864,  and  is  pensioned. 
He  enlisted  from  New  Canaan,  but  is  a  citizen  of  Stam- 
ford. 

SAMUEL  S.  OSBORN,  Co.  H,  Aug.  12,  1862,  and  discharged 
for  disability,  April  30, 1863.  He  re-enlisted  into  Co.  M, 
Second  Conn.  Art. 

LEVI  ST.  J.  WEED,  Corp.,  Co.  H,  Aug.  18,  1862. 

DAVID  C  .COMSTOCK,  JR.,  Co.  H,  Aug.  12,  1862,  was  disch. 
for  disability,  to  enlist  as  Hospital  Steward,  IT.  S,  A. 

ALFRED  Z.  BRODHURST,  Co.  II,  July  29,  1862. 

GEORGE  W.  WEED,  Co.  H,  Aug.  22,  1862.  from  the  Seventy- 
first  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

WARREN  KIRK,  Corp.,  Co.  K,  Aug.  15, 1862,  was  transferred 
to  Veteran  Reserve  Corps,  March  15,  1864. 

TWENTY-EIGHTH    CONN. 
COL.  SAMUEL  P.  FERRIS. 

Mustered  in  November  15,  1802,  and  discharged  August  28,   1863. 

Ill  this  nine  months'  regiment,  which  consisted  of  eight 
companies,  Stamford  was  more  fully  represented  than  in  any 
other  regiment  of  the  State.  The  colonel  of  the  regiment,  a 
son  of  the  Hon.  J.  B.  Ferris,  of  Stamford,  had  received  his 


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STAMFORD    SOLDIERS     MEMORIAL. 

military  education  at  West  Point,  and  graduated  as  2d 
Lieut,  on  the  opening  of  the  war,  directly  into  the  practice 
of  his  profession.  He  had  declined  a  lieutenant-colonel's 
commission  in  the  Seventeenth  Conn.,  and  received  one  of 
colonel  in  the  Twenty-Eighth,  on  its  organization.  Before 
the  return  of  the  regiment,  five  of  the  colonel's  staif  also 
were  Stamford  men.  Composed  so  largely  of  our  citizens, 
both  in  the  ranks  and  on  the  field  and  staff,  this  regiment 
could  but  excite  the  deepest  interest  of  our  citizens.  Of 
this  interest  our  opening  chapter  has  already  spoken. 

For  my  account  of  the  movements  of  this  regiment,  I  am 
largely  indebted  to  the  printed  or  manuscript  record,  made 
by  the  careful  pen  of  captain  Charles  H.  Brown,  now  of 
Washington  city. 

The  regiment  was  organized  October  11,  1862,  at  Camp 
Aiken,  JSew  Haven.  After  receiving  their  clothing  and 
equipments  they  were  mustered  into  the  United  States 
service,  Nov.  15th,  and  on  the  18th  they  went  on  board  the 
Elm  City,  and  proceeded  to  camp  Buckingham,  L.  I.  They 
were  assigned  to  the  Department  of  the  South,  under  Gen. 
Banks,  and  on  Saturday  the  28th,  they  again  struck  tents 
in  a  severe  rain  storm,  and  embarked  on  the  Che  Kiang  for 
their  Southern  destination.  With  them  also  embarked  the 
Twenty-third  Conn.,  thus  crowding  on  board  a  steamer 
which  might  have  given  comfortable  quarters  to  some  800 
troops  about  1,400  Connecticut  soldiers. 

The  steamer  weighed  anchor  at  ten  o'clock,  December  3d, 
under  first  orders  to  sail  south  twenty-four  hours,  and  then 
open  the  orders  which  should  direct  the  subsequent  course 
of  the  expedition.  The  second  orders,  when  opened,  assigned 
Ship  Island,  La.,  as  the  immediate  destination  of  the 
steamer. 

On  Friday  the  5th,  at  noon,  as  if  to  test  the  quality  of  our 


MILITARY    SERVICE. TWENTY-EIGHTH    CONN.  75 

men,  a  sudden  gale  and  storm  arose.  By  night  the  ocean 
tempest  seemed  to  be  doing  its  best.  The  steamer,  heavily 
loaded,  hatches  down,  and  everything  on  board  prepared 
for  a  fearful  strife,  rolled,  and  pitched,  and  groaned.  "  The 
storm,"  wrote  Captain  Brown,  "  was  grand  and  terrible,  far 
beyond  description.  Those  on  board  will  never  forget  it,  nor 
forget  the  prayers  which  were  then  uttered  for  safety."1 

During  the  progress  of  the  conflict,  one  of  the  officers  who 
had  been  fast  by  the  life-boat  for  hours,  in  answer  to  the 
inquiry,  "  What  is  the  prospect  ?"  answered,  "  We  shall  never 
see  another  sunrise^the  vessel  cannot  stand  it  much  longer." 

But  the  morning  came,  greatly  to  the  comfort,  as  well  as 
safety,  of  our  imperiled  and  imprisoned  men  ;  and  not  a 
man  of  them  can  be  found  who  would  wish  another  such 
encounter  with  an  angry  ocean  storm.  The  rest  of  the 
voyage  was  delightful,  as  if  to  make  amends  for  the  discom- 
fort and  fear  of  that  stormy  night.  Nothing  exciting 
occurred  on  the  passage,  excepting  that  while  off  the  Tor- 
tugas,  a  small  sail  vessel  ran  into  the  Che  Kiang,  striking 
her  just  forward  of  the  wheel-house,  and  damaging  her  to 
the  tune  of  some  six  thousand  dollars.  As  the  suspected 
craft  fell  astern  of  the  steamer,  our  band  on  board  struck  up 
in  liveliest  time  our  ';  Yankee  Doodle."  It  was  afterwards 
learned  that  the  assailing  craft  was  only  a  .pilot  boat,  and 
that  the  collision  was  accidental. 

On  Friday  morning  December  12th,  our  men  landed  on 
Ship  Island,  until  the  steamer  could  be  repaired.  After 
landing  and  pitching  their  tents  our  men  enjoyed  a  night's 
repose  on  land,  though  their  beds  were  of  the  soft  sands, 
which  a  southern  wind  storm  might  at  any  time  set  to  roll- 
ing about  as  the  billowy  ocean  they  had  just  escaped. 

While  here,  our  boys  making  the  best  of  the  situation, 
extracted  such  fun  and  comfort  as  their  condition  and 


76  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS'   MEMORIAL. 

means  could  supply,  little  caring  what  the  sober,  outside 
world,  civil  or  military,  might  think  of  their  pranks.  Who 
will  complain  if  some  dexterous  right  hand  among  them, 
baiting  his  hook  skillfully,  should  deftly  draw  the  plumpest 
fowl  out  of  a  neighboring  henery,  and  in  as  few  minutes  as 
it  takes  to  tell  the  story,  have  it  roasting  scientifically  for 
the  longing  palates  it  was  destined  to  satisfy  ? 

On  Wednesday,  the  17th,  the  two  regiments  re-embarked 
for  New  Orleans,  and,  after  stopping  a  few  hours  in  the  city, 
started  for  Camp  Parapet,  some  seven  miles  up  the  river, 
where  they  landed  and  pitched  tents  ;  but  were  immediately 
ordered  to  re-embark  for  Pensacola,  Fla.  By  eleven  that 
night  they  were  on  board  again,  and  ready  for  starting. 
They  reached  Pensacola  Monday  morning,  and  stacked  their 
arms  in  the  "  Grand  Plaza."  On  the  20th,  they  were 
ordered  to  evacuate  Pensacola  and  go  to  the  Barrancas 
Navy  Yard,  where  they  remained  until  May  10th,  when 
they  were  ordered  to  take  the  steamer  Crescent  and  proceed 
to  Brashear  City,  La.  On  the  25th,  they  were  ordered  to 
Port  Hudson,  and  at  noon  reached  Springfield  Landing, 
having  now  come  within  hearing  distance  of  the  strife  of 
arms.  Marching  twelve  mile?  toward  the  scene  of  conflict, 
they  found  themselves  now,  by  some  oversight  of  the  move- 
ment, right  between  the  two  contending  armies.  They 
fairly  ran  the  gauntlet,  escaping  unharmed,  and,  the  next 
day,  after  a  march  of  about  thirty  miles,  when  four  might 
have  sufficed,  they  reached  Grover's  Division,  to  which  they 
had  been  assigned.  Until  June  3d  they  here  suffered,  as 
soldiers  often  do,  for  want  of  rest  and  food,  when  they  were 
ordered  to  the  front. 

Colonel  Ferris,  as  Acting  Brigadier,  and  major  Wescome, 
in  charge  of  the  regiment.  ,  Capt.  Jones,  of  Co.  B,  was 
appointed  Aid  to  the  colonel,  Lieut.  Warner,  Assistant- 


MILITARY    SERVICE. TWENTY-EIGHTH    CONN.  77 

Adjutant-General,  and  Lieut.  Beimet  Acting  Adjutant  of 
Brigade.  Our  men  were  now  called  to  test  the  music  of 
whistling  balls,  and  there  was,  for  the  present,  to  be  no 
more  rest  for  them.  June  4th  they  are  ordered  to  be  ready 
to  go  into  the  rifle-pits.  In  spite  of  blundering  movements, 
Co.  A  in  advance,  they  at  length  reach  the  pits,  where  they 
spent  the  night.  The  next  day,  until  eight  in  the  evening, 
our  men  did  their  best,  "  firing  fast  and  well,"  to  harm  the 
enemy,  when  they  were  ordered  back  to  camp.  This  move 
was  executed  without  loss,  and  the  regiment  next  did  good 

o  o 

service  in  the  trenches. 

On  Friday,  the  12th,  orders  came  for  a  detail  of  one 
hundred  men,  for  a  storming  party.  From  Stamford,  on 
that  detail,  were  Capt.  Brown,  of  Co.  A,  in  command  of 
the  detail  from  Cos.  A,  C,  G  and  H,  with  Sergt.  Stiles 
Raymond,  and  privates  I.  Barret,  S.  S.  Dixon,  Smith 
Scofield,  A.  S.  Selleck,  J.  Wardell,  J.  Lower,  II.  Mead,  II. 
Jimmerson,  J.  V.  Swertcope,  F.  Hayward,  and  C.  A.  Ros- 
borough. 

To  the  credit  of  Sergeant  Stiles  Raymond,  it  should  be 
put  on  record  that  he  was  not  regularly  detailed  for  this 
hazardous  service.  George  A.  Mead  his  fellow-sergeant  had 
been  detailed,  and  as  he  had  left  behind  him  a  wife  and 
little  one  to  await  his  return,  his  comrade,  Stiles  Raymond, 
a  single  man,  volunteered  to  take  his  place  on  the  forlorn 
hope. 

It  should  also  be  reported  here,  to  the  credit  of  a  citizen 
of  the  town,  Wm.  W.  Saunders,  that  he  volunteered  to  take 
the  place  of  a  detailed  man  of  the  regiment,  and  that  he 
barely  escaped  from  the  death  storm  of  that  fearful  charge, 
having  had  the  hammer  of  his  musket  struck  off  by  a  shot 
which  otherwise  might  have  found  his  heart. 

Xor  must  we   omit  from  this  roll  of  credit   the    special 


78  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS5    MEMORIAL. 

service  of  Joseph  Paight.  When  the  hour  for  assault  had 
come, -the  color-bearer  of  the  regiment  had  failed.  The 
Colonel  called  for  a  volunteer.  There  was  some  hesitation 
at  assuming  a  post  of  so  eminent  risk,  but  not  long.  Joseph 
Paight  stepped  forward  and  accepted  the  risk,  carrying 
thenceforward  the  regimental  flag,  which,  in  his  trusty 
hands,  was  never  disgraced. 

It  was  no  ordinary  service,  even  in  war,  which  these  men, 
thus  detailed,  were  called  to  do ;  and  they  saw,  as  we  now 
cannot  see,  the  fearful  risks  before  them.  Thoughtfully 
they  prepared  themselves  for  the  duty.  They  wrote,  many 
of  them  the  last  messages  of  love  to  the  dear  ones  at  home 
which  they  ever  expected  to  pen.  They  made  careful  pre- 
paration for  the  charge.  The  next  morning  (Saturday) 
they  were  formed  in  line,  and  notified  that  the  charge  was 
to  be  made  at  two  o'clock  the  next  morning,  Sunday.  At 
three  p.  rn.  they  were  again  formed  and  marched  out  on  the 
Jackson  road,  where  they  stacked  their  arms  for  rest.  At 
midnight  they  were  called  up.  Hand  grenades  were  given 
them — though  no  one  of  the  detail  had  probably  ever  before 
attempted  to  use  them,  and  of  which  there  was  no  time  now 
to  secure  the  skillful  use.  At  two  o'clock  the  order  to  march 
finds  every  man  at  his  post.  Reaching  the  field  in  front  of 
the  batteries,  they  meet  a  furious  storm  of  shot  and  shell, 
and  escape  the  hurtling  death  by  falling  down  between  the 
corn  hills.  At  four,  the  order  is  given  to  advance.  With  a 
cheer  they  start,  but  their  line,  broken  up  by  a  heavy  haw- 
thorn hedge,  through  whose  only  opening  they  had  to  go, 
they  could  not  again  re-form.  Reaching  the  ditch  they 
were  checked,  and  at  that  distance  the  hand  grenades  were 
found  of  little  use,  and  the  assault  proved  ineffectual.  The 
slaughter  of  our  men  in  the  assault  was  fearful.  From 
Stamford,  Lieut.  Durand  fell  while  beckoning  his  men  to 


MILITARY    SERVICE. TWENTY-EIGHTH   CONN.  U 

the  charge.  Corporal  Yail  and  private  Wardell  quickly 
followed  him.  C.  A.  Rosborough  met  the  wounds  which, 
ere  another  month,  was  to  take  him  to  their  company  again. 
And  our  catalogue  of  these  companies  will  show  who  besides 
were  to  bear  in  their  bodies  the  tokens  of  their  valor  and 
their  peril  in  this  assault. 

One  only  of  our  whole  number,  the  wiry  and  active  Geo. 
A.  Waterbury,  succeeded  in  crossing  over  the  enemy's 
breastworks,  and  he  was,  of  course,  a  prisoner  in  their  hands. 

At  dusk  the  order  is  given  to  retire,  and  of  those  from 
Co.  A,  who  left  the  field  together,  were  captain  Brown 
and  privates  Lower,  Swertcope  and  Barret. 

During  the  day  of  the  charge,  our  men,  botli  of  the 
assaulting  party  and  of  the  rest  of  the  regiment,  bad  to  save 
themselves  by  lying  down  as  the  shots  of  the  enemy  passed 
over  them.  In  their  desperation,  hot,  hungry  and  thirsty, 
as  they  were,  some  of  the  more  resolute  of  them  attempted 
to  cross  the  field  which  was  most  completely  raked  by  their 
fire.  Lieut.  Daskam,  while  running  the  gauntlet,  had  his 
cap  carried  off  by  a  rebel  shot.  It  was  only  after  the  night 
had  set  in  that  our  forces  could  return  to  their  position  before 
the  charge.  Yet,  after  the  return,  worn  and  shattered  as 
they  were,  a  detail  of  twenty-four  men  was  ordered  to  sup- 
port a  battery,  and  Sergeant  Mead,  of  Company  A,  ^  as  still 
ready  for  the  command. 

On  the  Ifith  it  was  found  that  Company  A  had  seventeen 
men,  and  B  only  five  fit  for  duty.  By  the  next  day,  how- 
ever, the}-  were  mainly  ready  for  duty,  and  nobly  reported 
themselves  in  the  rifle-pits  to  which  they  were  ordered.  Gen. 
Banks  sent  in  a  flag  of  truce  that  we  might  recover  and  bury 
our  dead,  and  the  bodies  of  our  three  men  who  had  fallen 
were  brought  off  from  the  field  and  buried  near  the  picket 
fence. 


80  STAMFOKD    SOLDIERS'    MEMORIAL. 

On  the  20th,  the  regiment  was  ordered  to  report  to  Gen. 
Weitzel,  to  go  to  Jackson.  They  executed  the  order,  Lieut. 
Lever  in  command  of  Company  A,  Lieut.  Wilmot,  of  Com- 
pany B,  and  Lieut.  Daskam  acting  adjutant ;  and  they 
returned  on  the  23d.  June  26th,  companies  A  and  B, 
commanded  as  above,  were  ordered  into  the  trenches  on 
fatigue  duty.  July  5th,  Capt.  Brown  took  command  of  the 
rifle  pits.  After  the  surrender  of  Port  Hudson,  July  8th, 
our  regiment  was  ordered  to  picket  duty  in  the  vicinity,  and 
Capt.  Brown  was  detailed  to  parole  prisoners. 

Thus  far  no  unsoldierly  conduct  was  chargeable  upon 
either  of  the  companies  which  represented  us,  unless  that  of 
Company  B,  on  the  4th  of  June,  for  allowing  its  lines  to  be 
broken,  and  for  which  the  colors  of  the  regiment  had  been 
taken  away  and  transferred  to  Company  C.  On  the  15th  of 
July  a  court  of  inquiry  sat  upon  the  case,  and  Capt.  Jones 
was  acquitted  of  all  blame  in  the  matter. 

On  the  18th,  when  the  regiment  was  inspected,  Company 
A  reported  34  and  Company  B,  22  men  for  duty.  Since  May 
20th,  the  regiment,  having  left  their  tents  at  Baton  Rouge, 
had  slept  on  the  ground.  Their  baggage  reached  them 
July  23d,  and  August  3d,  orders  for  the  regiment  to  go  inside 
of  fortifications.  August  7th,  at  half-past  ten,  A.  M.,  the  long 
delayed  and  wished  for  orders  were  received  for  the  regiment 
to  start  for  home.  Leaving  their  arms  at  the  ordnance 
office,  at  5  A.  M.,  our  men  went  on  board  the  steamer 
Madison,  and  at  half-past  nine  steamed  away,  up  the  river, 
from  Port  Hudson,  and  the  Department  of  the  Gulf. 

And  now  the  service  of  our  men  begins  to  tell  upon  those 
men  who  have  survived  the  carnage  of  the  battle-field.  One 
and  another,  and  still  others  drop  off  as  the  steamer  plows 
its  way  up  the  stream,  and  sorrowful  hands  lay  them  to  their 
last  rest  on  its  banks.  Others  of  the  worn  ones  are  obliged 


MILITARY    SERVICE. CO.  A,  TWENTY-EIGHTH    CONN.  81 

to  stop  on  the  passage,  wherever  a  friendly  hospital  offers 
them  a  chance  to  prolong  the  lives  which  continued  journey- 
ing will  certainly  and  quickly  end. 

Reaching  Cairo  on  the  15th,  they  leave  the  next  evening 
by  railroad  for  the  East.  The  returning  men  found  their 
journey  homeward  an  ovation  worthy  of  heroes.  At  Indian- 
apolis, Cleveland,  Buffalo,  Utica  and  Albany,  whether  the 
arrival  was  at  noontide  or  midnight,  our  soldiers  found  sump- 
tuous preparations  for  their  entertainments  ;  and  all  along 
the  way,  at  the  smallest  towns,  and  from  the  doors  of  hamlets 
on  the  roadside,  the  welcome  they  received  was  the  award 
of  a  grateful  and  loyal  people. 

FIELD  AND  STAFF. 

SAMUEL  PETERS  FERRIS,  Oct.  18,  1862,  and  honorably  dis- 
charged August  28,  1863.  His  record  on  the  field  was  that 
of  an  admirable  tactician,  handling  his  regiment  or  brigade 
with  great  dexterity  and  skill.  His  record  again  appears 
on  the  roll  of  the  United  States  Army. 

CHARLES  H.  BROWN,  Adjutant,  October  18,  1862,  promoted 
captain  Company  A,  February  20,  1863. 

FREDERICK  R.  WARNER,  Adjutant,  February  20,  1863,  and 
honorably  discharged  August  28,  1863  ;  and  enlisted  into 
the  Hawkins'  Zouaves. 

WILLIAM  A.  BAILEY,  Sergeant-major,  October  18,  1862, 
honorably  discharged  August  28,  1 863. 

NELSON  B.  BENNET,  commissary  sergeant,  September  10, 
1862,  honorably  discharged  August  28,  1863. 

HENRY  ROCKWELL,  M.  D.,  2cl  assistant  surgeon,  November 
26,  1862,  honorably  discharged  August  28/1863,  and 
appointed  surgeon  in  the  U.  S.  Army. 

COMPANY    A. 

FKANCIS  R.  LEEDS,  enlisted  August  12th,  and  commissioned 
September  1,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

CHARLES  II.  BROWN,  August  12,  1862,  1st   Lieut.  September 
K 


82  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS'    MEMORIAL. 

1st,  appointed  adjutant  October  18,  1862,  and  promoted 
captain  February  20,  1863.  Our  record  of  the  assault  on 
Port  Hudson,  is  ample  testimony  to  his  merit  as  soldier 
and  officer.  His  name  is  deservedly  high  on  our  Stam- 
ford roll. 

PHILIP  LEVER,  August  12,  1862,  2d  Lieut.  September  1st, 
and  1st  Lieut,  October  24,  1862.  He  was  a  spirited  and 
efficient  officer. 

FREDERICK  R.  WARNER,  August  25,  1862,  2d  Lieut.  October 
24th,  and  adjutant  February  20,  1863.  He  had  already 
seen  service  in  the  Ninth  New  York,  and  been  wounded 
at  Harper's  Ferry,  July  4,  1861.  He  was  energetic  in 
action  and  severe  in  discipline.  After  his  discharge  with 
the  regiment  he  re-enl.  into  the  64th  N.  Y. 

EUGENE  B.  DASKAM,  1st  sergeant  August  16,  1862,  and  2d 
Lieut  February  20,  1863.  A  popular  officer,  now  in  the 
service  of  the  Treasury  Department,  Washington,  D.  C. 

ASHBEL  W.  SCOFIELD,  sergeant,  Aug.  25,  1862,  left  in  hos- 
pital at  Cleveland,  Aug.  18,  1863. 

STILES  RAYMOND,  sergeant,  Aug.  14,  1862.     See  page  77. 
STEPHEN  S.  SMITH,  sergeant,  Aug.  29.  1862. 

GEORGE  A.  MEAD,  sergeant,   Aug.  20  1862.     See  page  77, 

also  Obituary. 
SEYMOUR  J.  BODEY,  corporal,  Aug.  13,  1862,  and  appointed 

quartermaster's-sergeant. 
ROBERT  BUNTEN,  corporal,  Aug.  12,  1862.     • 
ALEXANDER  WEED,  corporal  Aug.  12,  1862. 
ALONZO  S.  MORGAN,  color  corporal,  Aug.  14,  1862,  left  sick 

at  Cleveland  Aug.  18,  1863. 
WM.  O.  WEBB,  corporal,  Aug.  12,  1862. 

See  Obituary. 

GABRIEL  W.  PL  ATT,  corporal,  Aug.  20,  1862. 

See  Obituary. 

JAMES  VAIL,  corporal,  Aug.  30,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

WELLS  R.  WHITNEY,  Aug  12,  and  appointed  Ordnance  Sergt. 
JACOB  WATERS,  musician,  Aug.  81,  1862,  discharged. 


MILITARY    SERVICE. CO.    A,    TWENTY-EIGHTH    CONN.          83 

HENBY  J.  Ho  WELL,  musician,  Sept.  10,  1862. 

PHILIP  B.  KEELER,  wagoner,  Aug.  18, 1862. 

CHARLES  J.  BROWN,    Aug.  19,  1862,  left  in  Cleveland  sick, 

August  1,  1863. 
SEELY  BROWN,  Aug.  27,  1862. 

ISAAC  BARRETT,  Aug.  19,  1862,  wounded  in  the  foot,  June 
14,  1862. 

AARON  BILLINGS,  Aug.  21,  1862  ;  left  sick  in  Memphis  Aug. 
13,  1862. 

ISAAC  BILLINGS,  Aug.  25,  1862. 

ADAM  F.  BILLINGS,  Aug.  25,  1862. 

JOHN  E.  BOUTON,  Aug.  25,1862.  See  Obituary. 

THEODORE  W.  BOUTON,  Aug.  27,  1862. 

WM.  C.  BOUTON,  Sept.  10,  1862,  deserted,  arrested  and  dis- 
charged Dec.  6,  1863. 

WM.  H.  BOUTON,  Aug.  28,  1862,  honorably  discharged. 

SPENCER  BOUTON,  Aug.  30,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

JAMES  N.  BUXTON,  Aug  28,  1862,  deserted  Nov.  29,  1862. 

JAMES  B-  CUNNINGHAM,  Aug.  22,  1862,  honorably  discharged 
and  re-enlisted  in  Sixth  Conn. 

GEORGE  CRABB,  Aug.  25,  1862. 

GEORGE  E.  CRABB,  Sept,  10,  1862. 

GEORGE  "W.  CLOCK,  Aug.  27,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

SMITH  DANN,  Aug.  23,  1862. 

STEPHEN  S.  DIXON,  Aug.  25,  1862. 

JAMES  Us.  FERRIS,  Aug.  18,  1862,  discharged  Dec.  3,  1863. 

EDWARD  A.  FERRIS,  Oct.  30,  1862. 

ALBERT  E.  FARRINGTON,  Aug.  26,  1862. 

JOEL  M.  GILBERT,  Aug.  25,  1862. 

ALEX.  J.  HOLLY,  Aug.  13,  1862. 

JOHN  E.  TIoYT,  Aug.  13,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

NOAH  W.  HOYT,  Aug.  23,  1862. 

FREDERICK  HAYWARD,  Aug.  26,  was  wounded  in  the  storm- 
ing party,  June  14th. 


84 


STAMFORD    SOLDIERS     MEMORIAL. 


HARRISON  HICKS,  Aug.  27,  1862. 
JOHN  D.  JESSUP,  Aug.  28,  1862. 
HENRY  F.  JIMMERSON,  Sept.  1,  1862. 

THEODORE  KNAPP,  Aug.   25th,  left  in   hospital,  Memphis, 

Aug.  13,  1863. 

CHAS.  W.  LrrcHFiELD,  Aug.  20,  1862,  See  Obituary. 

JOHN  LOWER,  Sept.  1,  left  sick  at  Cleveland  Aug.  18,  1863. 
HENRY  LOWER,  Aug.  23, 1862.  See  Obituary. 

ANDREW  J.  LOCKWOOD,  Aug.  27,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

SHERMAN  D.  LOCKWOOD,  Aug,  26,  1862.         See  Obituary. 
THOS.  W.  MOLLET,  Aug.  13,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

HANFORD  MEAD,  Aug.  25,  1862. 
LEWIS  PROVOST,  Aug.  26,  1862.  Sick  in  hospital,  at  Brashear 

City  when  the  company  left. 
ALONZO  L.  PARKER,  Aug.  30,  1862. 

THEODORE  H.  PECK,  Aug  30,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

CYRUS  J.  RAYMOND,  Aug.  15,  1862. 
JEROME  R,AFFERTY.  Aug  15,  1862. 

CHAS.  A.  ROSBOROUGH,  Aug.  26,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

STEPHEN  SMITH,  Aug.  12,  1862. 

GEORGE  R.  SEARLES,  Aug.  20,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

GEO  E.  SCOFIELD,  Aug.  14-,  1862. 
SYLVESTER  L.  SCOFIELD,  Aug.  25,  1862. 
SMITH  SCOFIELD,  Aug.  26,  1862. 
LOOMIS  SCOFIELD,  Aug.  26,  1862. 

GILBERT  SCOFIELD,  Aug.  20,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

JOHN  V.  SWERTCOPE,  Aug.  18,  1862. 
HENRY  A.  SHERWOOD,  Aug-  23,  1862. 
NATHAN  SHERWOOD,  Aug.  27,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

AREA  S.  SELLECK,  Aug.  25,  1862. 

WM.  H.  TOTTEN,  Aug.  25,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

WM.  S.  TAYLOR,  Aug.  27,  in  hospital  at  Brashear  City  when 

the  company  left. 
GEO.  W.  TODD,  Aug.  30,  1862. 


MILITARY    SERVICE. CO.    B,    TWENTY-EIGHTH    CONN.          85 

HENRY  M.  WHITNEY,  Aug.  18,  left  sick  at  Cleveland,  Aug. 

18,    1863. 

EDMUND  M.  WILLIAMS,  Aug.  13,  1863. 
JASON  WARDELL,  Aug.  18,  1863.  See  Obituary. 

ANDRP:W  C.  WATERBURY,  Aug.  26, 1862.  See  Obituary. 
STEPHEN  R.  WATERBURY,  Aug.  26,  1862.  See  Obituary. 
AMMI  L.  WESSELS,  Aug.  27,  1862. 

COMPANY  B. 

CYRUS  D.  JONES,  Aug.  29,  and  com.  Capt.  Sept.  30,  1863. 
CHARLES  DURAND,  Sept.  3d,  1st  Lieut.  Sept.  13,  1862.  See 

Obituary. 

HENRY  L.  WILMOT,  Aug.  30,  2d  Lieut.  Sept.  13,  1862. 
ABEL  TANNER,  1st  sergeant  Sept.  8,  1862. 
BENJAMIN  W.  CARD,  Serg.  Sept.  10,  2d  Lieut.  July  23, 1863, 

on  detailed  service. 

ANDREW  BOYD,  Sergt.  Sept.  8,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

GEO.  A.  WATERBURY,  Sergt.  Aug.   30,  taken    prisoner  July 

14th,  at  Port  Hudson,  and  released  July  14th. 
CHARLES  H.  CONLEY,  Sergt.,  Sept.  10,  1862. 
LEWIS  JONES,  Corp.,  Sept.  9,  1862. 
CHARLES  Weed.  Corp.,  Sept.  10,  1862. 
EDMUND  P.  BAILEY,  Corp..  Sept.  30,  1862. 
WM.  H.  KING,  Corp.,  Sept.  10,  1862. 
JAMES  H.  NICHOLS,  Corp.,  Sept.  2,  1862. 
DAVID  C.  SCOFIELD,  Sept.  10,  1862. 
EBEN.  R.  LAWRENCE,  Corp.,  Sept.  10,  1862. 
GEO.  A.  ELDRIDGE,  musician,  Aug.  30,  1862. 
SAMUEL  M.  BOUTON,  musician,  Aug.  30,  1862. 
CHAS.  L.  WEED,  wagoner,  Sept.  8,  1862. 
ELAII  BALLARD*  Aug.  30,  1862. 
WM.  H.  BANKS,  Sept.  3,  1862. 

NATH'L.  BARMORE,  Jr.,  Sept.  9,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

CHARLES  BELL,  Sept.  10,  1862. 


86  STAMFORD   SOLDIERS'    MEMORIAL. 

NELSON  BENNETT,  Corp.  Sept.  13, 1862,  and  soon,  commissary 
sergeant,  returning  to  his  Co.  Jan.  13,  1863. 

GEO.  R.  BUNTEN,  Sept.  11, 1862.     Sick  in  Utica.  when  the 

regiment  was  mustered  out. 
JOHN  BUTCHER,  Sept.  13, 1862,  reported  a  deserter,  Nov.  18, 

1862. 

CHAS.  W.  CALDWELL,  Sept.  8,  1862. 

SAMUEL  CALDWELL,  Sept.  13,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

EDWARD  T.  CLARK,  Sept.  4,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

WM.  H.  CRABB,  Sept.  6,  1862.     In  hospital,  at  Memphis, 

Aug.  13,  1862. 
ANDREW  CRISSY,  Oct.  3,  1862.       In  hospital,  at  Brashear 

City,  May  23,  1862. 

ORIGEN  S.  ENSLEY.      Left  sick  at  New  Haven,  Nov.  8, 1862. 
AARON  P.    FERRIS,  Sept.  10,  1862,  disch.  disability,  July  27, 

1863,  at  Port  Hudson,  La. 
BENJ.  P.  FERRIS,  Sept.  3,  1862. 
ISAAC  FERRIS,  Sept.  2,  1862. 

JOEL  G.  FOSTER,  Aug.  30, 1862,  appointed  corporal  Oct.  18. 
PETER  FRYERMUTH,  Sept.  11, 1862,  disch.  for  disability,  Jan. 

19,  1863. 

JOHN  GAGAN,  Sept.  15,  1862. 
ISAAC  F.  HOYT,  Sept.  2,  1862. 

SETH  H.  HOYT,  Sept.  10,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

ANDREW  HOYT,  Sept.  10,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

LYMAN  HOYT,  Sept.  10,  1862. 
HIRAM  S.  HOLLY,  Sept.  6,  1862. 
WM.  L.  HALL,  Sept.  10,  1862. 

GEO.  W.  HARTSON,  Sept.  4,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

NAHOR  JONES,  Sept.  10,  1862. 
ALVA  JONES,  Sept.  11,  1862,  wounded,  June  14th,  at  Port 

Hudson. 

HENRY  E.  JACKSON,  Sept.  10,  1862. 
WM.  H.   JUNE,  Sept.  11,  1862,  was  in  the  assault  on  Port 

Hudson,  June  14th. 


MILITARY    SERVICE. CO.    B,    TWENTY-EIGHTH    CONN.  87 

GEO.  W.  JUNE,  Sept.  11,  1862,  was  in  the  assault  on  Port 

Hudson,  June  14th. 

CHARLES  JENNINGS,  Sept.  11,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

CHARLES  W.  KNAPP,  Jr.,  Sept.  10,  1862. 
FREDERICK  LOWE,  Sept.  4,  1862,  reported  deserter,  Nov.  14, 

1862. 

SAMUEL  LOCKWOOD,  2nd,  Sept.  10,  1862. 

SAMUEL  R.  LOCKWOOD,  Sept.  10,  1862. 

WM.  H.  LOCKWOOD,  Sept.  24,  1862. 

THOMAS  LOWNEY,  Sept.  11,  1862,  reported  deserter,  Nov.  18, 

1862. 

CHARLES  W.  MILLER,  Sept.  2,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

THOMAS  NODYNE,  Sept.  6,  1862. 
ELIAS  E.  PALMER,  Sept.  13,  1862,  wounded  at  Port  Hudson, 

June  14th. 

HENRY  II.  ROSOOE,  Sept  9,  1862. 
DANIEL  RANDALL,  Sept.  11,  1862. 
CHARLES  J.  RUSHER,  NW.  18,  1862,  wounded  July  6,  before 

Port  Hudson,  while  crossing  an  exposed  opening  before 

the  rifle  pits. 

SYLVANUS  SMITH,  Sept.  3,  1863.  See  Obituary. 

CHARLES  L.  SMITH,  Sept.  10,  1862,  wounded  at  Port  Hud- 
son, June  14,  1863. 

SELLECK  S.  SCOFIELD,  Sept.  6,  1862. 

GEORGE  E.  SCOFIELD,  Sept  10,  1862,  and  appointed  commis- 
sary sergeant. 

LEWIS  B.  SCOFIELD,  Sept.  10,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

WM.  SCOFIELD,  Sept.  11,  1862. 

JAMES  E.  SCOFIELD,  Sept.  11,  1862  ;  in  hospital  at  Brashear 
City,  May  23,  1863. 

NOAH  FRANKLIN  SCOFIELD,  Sept  13,  1862. 

WM.  W.  SAUNDERS,  Sept.  10,  1861.  See  page  77. 

GEO.  E.  SAUNDERS  Sept.  11,  1862. 

JOIIM-  Sr-vrEii,  Sjpt  13,  1302,  imported  deserter  N"ov.  18,  1862 

THOMAS  STANLEY,  Sept.  23,  1862. 


CO  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS     MEMORIAL. 

WM.  H.  STEVENS.  Oct.  3,  1862,  reported  deserter  Nov.  1862. 
SAMUEL  A.  WOOD,  Sept  3,  1862,  wounded  June  14,  1863,  at 

Port  Hudson. 

CHARLES  W.  WATERBURY,  Sept.  3,  1862. 
PHILIP  WATERBURY,  Sept.  10,  1862. 

JOSEPH  WILMOT,  Sept.  8, 1862,  reported  deserter  Nov.  18, 1862. 
JAMES  T.  WILMOT,  Sept.  10,  1862. 

WILLIAM  H.  WALTON,  Sept.  10,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

WILLIAM  H.  WARING,  Sept.  23,  1862. 
THADDEUS  L.  BAILEY,  May  12,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

JOSEPH  PAIGHT,  Sergt.,  Sep..  9,  1862.  See  page  78. 

FRANCIS  H.  JONES,  Aug.  27,  1862,  and  was  in  the  storming 

party  July  14th,  at  Port  Hudson.     He  re-enlisted  July 

23,  1863.  ' 

CLEMENT  E.  MILLER,  Aug.  25,  1862. 
NATHANIEL  H.  NICHOLS,  Oct.  7,  1862 
MILES  J.  STEPHENS,  Aug.  22,  1862. 
ADDISON  P.  SCOFIELD,  Aug.  20,  1862. 
JOHN  WATERS,  Aug.  25,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

GEORGE  W.  WILMOT,  Aug.  9,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

GEO.  H.  MEEKER,  Corp.  Co.  G,  Sept.  8,  1862,  and  re-enl. 

into  17th  Conn.  Vol.,  having  enlisted  from  Norwalk  but 

now  living  here. 

COMPANY  H. 

RICHARD  ARMSTRONG,  Aug.  19.  1862.  After  discharge  re-enl., 
and  has  never  been  heard  from,  leaving  here  a  wife  and 
one  child. 

PHINEAS  BROWN,  Aug.  22,  1862. 

THEODORE  DELCROIX,  Aug.  13,  1862. 

CORNELIUS  DEVER,  Aug.  20,  1862. 

WRIGHT  H.  FEEKS,  Aug.  20,  1862,  and  was  later  in  a  New 
York  regiment. 

WILLIAM  HALPIN,  Aug.  13,  1862.  re  enl.  6th  Conn. 


OTHER    CONNECTICUT    REGIMENTS.  89 

THOMAS  LAWLER,  Aug.  25,  1862,  storming  party,  June  14th, 

wounded  in  shoulder. 

HIBBAKD  MEAD,  Aug.  28,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

THOMAS  O'BRIEN,  Jr.,  Aug.  18,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

JOSEPH  A.  SUTTON,  Aug.  18,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

OTHER  CONNECTICUT  REGIMENTS. 
FIRST. 

WILLIAM  KELLER,  Rifle  Co.  B,  April  22,  1861,  and  diseh. 
for  disability  April  24,  1861. 

ALLEN  WEBB,  Co.  H,  April  23,  1861,  honorably  discharged 
July  31,  1861,  and  re-enl.  into  the  2d  Conn.  Light  Battery. 

SECOND. 

JOHN  LILLET,  Co.  B,  May  7,  1861,  from  Norwich.  He 
was  honorably  discharged  as  first  sergeant  Aug.  7,  1861, 
and  re-enl.  into  the  17th  Conn. 

FOURTH. 

JOHN  A.  HOLTON,  M.  I).,   Co.  I,   afterwards  1st  Artillery, 
June  12,  1861,  and  discharged  March  29,  1802.     He  was 
here  as  a  dentist  on  the  opening  of  the  war.     It  is  believed 
he  was  commissioned  assistant  surgeon   and  assigned  to' 
hospital  duty. 

FIFTH. 

WILLIAM  II.   CARD,   Co.  A,  July  22,   1861,  discharged  for 

disability  Jan.  29,  1862. 
THOMAS  M.  WELSH,  Co.  A,  July  22,  1861. 
MICHAEL  COLLINS,  Co.  K,  April  6,  1864. 

SEVENTH. 

GROSVENOR  STARR,  Adjutant,  Sept.  17,  1861.     See  Obituary. 
GEORGE  ADAMS,  Co.  A,  Sept.  5,  1861,  re-enl.  Dec.  22,  1863, 

and  reported  a  deserter. 

JOHN  II.  VERNAL,  musician,  Co.  I,  Sept.  13,  1861. 
LEWIS  A.  COOK,  Co.  E,  Sept.  7, 1861,  and  re  enl.  vet.  See  Obit. 

EIGHTH. 
JAMES  CONLAN,  Oct.  5,  1861,  re-enl.  veteran,  Dec.  24,  1863. 


90  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS5    MEMORIAL. 

TIMOTHY  CAHILL,  Sept.  23,  1861,  from  Norwalk.  He  wa8 
honorably  discharged  at  Bermuda  Hundred,  and  is  now 
living  here. 

NINTH. 

JAMKS  COLLINS,  Feb.  17,  1863,  to  June  30,  1864. 
JOHN  CONNELLY,  April  25,  1864,  to  June  30,  1864. 
THOMAS  IRVING,  April  30,  1864,  to  June  30,  1864. 

ELEVENTH. 

HENRY  BERESFORD,  April  11,  1864,  to  June  30,  1864. 
WILLIAM  CHANEY,  April  19,  1864,  to  June  30,  1864. 
JAMES  FARREL,  April  23,  1864,  to  June  30,  1864. 
WILLIAM  JOHNSON,  Feb.  27,  1864,  to  June  30,  1864. 
FRANK  McQuEON,  Co.  D,  May  3,  1864. 
PIERRE  POINSETT,  Co.  C,  May  10,  1864. 
PETER  SIMPSON,  Co.  G,  April  23,  1864. 

TWELFTH. 
EBENEZER  NORMAN,  Co.  E,  Nov  19,  1861.     Discharged  for 

disability  July  17,  1863. 

CORVUS  NORTHROP,  Co.  E,  Dec.  28,  1861.      See  Obituary. 
NATHAN   PALMER,  Co.    E,  Dec.    3,    1861.     Discharged  for 

disability  Feb.  27,  1862. 
CHARLES  COUNCEL,  Co.  G,  Dec.  5,  1861,  re-enl.  veteran,  Jan. 

1,  186L     He  has  a  family  here. 
JCHN  McCABE,  Co.  F,  April  23,  1864. 
THIRTEENTH. 
COMPANY  B. 

JOHN  J.  HAIGHT,  sergeant,  Dec.  22, 1861,  discharged  for  disa- 
bility June  30,  1862,  and  re-enl.  into  the  6th  Conn.  Yol. 

GEORGE  II.  PRATT,  corporal,  Jan.  11,  1862,  re-enl.  veteran, 
and  commissioned  2d  Lieut.  May  1,  1864,  and  promoted 
1st  Lieut.  Dec.  30,  1864.  His  name  is  on  the  roll  of 
honor  for  meritorious  service,  June  14,  1862,  at  Port 
Hudson. 

GEORGE  AY.  TAYLOR,  musician,  Dec.  31,  1861. 


MILITARY    SERVICE. — CONN.    REGIMENTS.  91 

ABRAHAM  E.  ACKLEY,  Jan.  6,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

AARON  S.  AVERY,  Jan.  11,  1862,  discharged  Jan.  14,  1863. 
MARTIN  BELL,  Dec.  22,  1861,  re-enl.  veteran  Feb.  8,  1864. 
CLARK  DIXON,  Jan.  11,  1862,  re-enl.  vet.,  Feb.  8,  1864. 
WILLIAM  I.  FERRIS,  Feb.  10,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

THOMAS  S,  HARRIS,  Feb.  27,  1862,  discharged  for  disability 

June  30,  1862. 

BANISTER  H.  JONES,  March  5th,  1862,  discharged  for  disa- 
bility May  21,  1862. 
JAMES  R.  KNAPP,  Feb.  10,  1862,   discharged  for  disability 

March  5,  1862. 

EDWARD  C.  LOCKWOOD,  Dec.  22,  1861. 
GEORGE  II.  SEARLES,  Jan.  18,  1862,  discharged  for  disability 

June  30,  1862. 
HENRY  C.  SEARLES,  Feb.  18,  1862,  discharged  for  disability 

July  5,  1862,  and  re-enl.  into  a  N.  Y.  cavalry  regiment. 
JOHN  ENNIS  SEARLES,  Jan.  6,  1862,  was  taken  prisoner  at 

Winchester. 

GEORGE  B.  SELLECH,  Dec.  22,  1861.  See  Obituary. 

BENJAMIN  O.  SEARLES,  Feb.  26,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

JOHN  J.  TAYLOR,  Dec,  22,  1861.  See  Obituary. 

JOHN  W.  THORNE,  Feb.  20,  1862.  See  Obituary. 

JOSEPH    THORNE,   Feb.    10,    1862,   re-enl.  veteran    Feb.  29, 

1864,  and  was    taken  prisoner  at  Winchester,  Sept.   19, 

1864. 
JOHN  P.  WEED,  Dec.  31,  1861,  wounded  at  Port  Hudson, 

June  14,  1863. 

BENJAMIN  JONES,  Co.  H.  Jan.  11,  1862. 
EDWARD  A.  LOCKWOOD,  Co.  II,  Jan.  11,  1862,  discharged  for 

disability  Sept.  22,  1862. 

EIGHTEENTH. 

JOHN  LILLEY,  from  Co.  B,  2d  Conn.,  was  commissioned 
2d  Lieut,  of  Co.  I,  Oct.  10,  1863,  in  the  18th  Conn. 
Promoted  1st  Lieut.  June  5,  1864,  and  Capt.  Oct.  17, 
1864,  and  was  mustered  out,  June  27,  1865,  after  the  war 
closed.  In  the  spirited  work  done  at  Piedmont,  Ya.,  June 


92  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS '    MEMORIAL. 

5,  1864,  he  was  severely  wounded  in  the  leg.     His  family 
have  been  residing  here  since  the  war. 

TWENTY-THIRD. 

WILLIAM  H.  TROWBRIDGE,  M.  D.,  commissioned  surgeon, 
Sept.  25,  1862,  in  the  Banks'  expedition,  and  taken 
prisoner  near  Brashear  City.  He  was  complimented  with 
gift  of  sword,  sash  and  belt  from  the  citizens  oi  the  town. 
On  his  return  from  the  South,  was  detailed  surgeon  of 
Board  of  Enrollment  at  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  from  which 
service  he  was  discharged  Aug.  31,  1863. 

GEORGE  BENEDICT,  assistant  surgeon,  Jan.  22,  1863,  and 
discharged  Aug.  31,  1863. 

HENRY  H.  ANDERSON,  Co.  I,  Oct.  27,  1862,  and  honorably 
discharged  Aug.  31,  1863.  He  re-enl.  into  the  Navy. 

TWENTY-FIFTH. 

JOSEPH  L.  PEMBER,  Co.  K,  Aug.  21,  1862,  from  Hart- 
ford ;  honorably  discharged,  Aug.  26,  1863,  and  is 
now  living  in  Stamford. 

TWENTY-SEVENTH. 

ELISHA  T.  PAYNE,  Co.  C,  Sept,  9,  1862,  and  honorably 
discharged  July  27,  1863  ;  has  lived  in  Stamford  since 
the  war,  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  as  dentist. 

TWENTY-NINTH. 

JOSEPH  FERMIN,  Co.  A,  Nov.  28,  1863. 

WILSON  ESSEX,  Co.  B,  Nov.  24,  1863. 

STEPHEN  GRAY,  Co.  B,  Nov.  28,  1863. 

ROBERT  MITCHEL,  Co.  B,  Jan.  4,  1864. 

RICHARD  MYERS,  Co.  B,  Nov.  24,  1863. 

GEORGE  VANDIVKRE,  Co.  B,  Nov.  24,  1863. 

WILLLIAM    NELLIS,   Co.    B,    Dec.    4,    1863 ;    was  wounded 

severely  in  the  elbow  at  Kell  House,  Virginia,   Oct.  27, 

27,  1864. 

THOMAS  L.  BROWN,  Co.  G,  Dec.  28,  1863. 


MILITARY   SERVICE. CONN.  REGIMENTS.  93 

ALLEN     BANKS,    Co.     G,    Jan    5,     1864 ;     was     shot     in 

one  leg  at  Fair  Oaks. 

JOHN  BROWN,  Co.  G,  Dec.  28,  1863.  See  Obituary. 

DAVID  SNIVELY,  Co.  G,  Dec.  28,  1863. 
GEORGE  E.  BROWN,  Sergt.  Co.  H,  Dec.  31,  1863. 
JOSEPH  ELLIS,  Co.  H,  Dec.  30,  1863. 

WILLIAM    H.  BROWN,    Co.     H,    Dec.  9,    1863,    honorably 
discharged  at  Brownsville,  Texas,  October  24, 1865. 
CHARLES  E.  TREADWELL,  Co.  II,  Dec.  31,  1863. 
RANDOLPH  WILLIAMS,  Co.  II,  Dec.  28,  1863. 
ROBERT  WILSON,  Co.   H,  Dec.  30,   1863  ;  reported  deserter 

Feb.  5,  1864. 
SIMON    GREENE,    Corp.   Co.   I,    Jan.    4,     1864,    discharged 

for  disability  June  27,  1864. 
JOHN  H.  CLINE,  Co.  I,  Jan.  1,  1864. 
ABRAM  LATTAN,  Co.  I,  Jan.  5,  1864. 
JOSIAH  WALTON,  Co.  I,  Jan.  4,  1864. 
WILLIAM  H.  HAWKINS,  Co.  K,  Jan.  4,  1864. 
WILLIAM  BANKS,  April  20,  1864 ;  reported  deserting  April 

27,  1864. 

DAVID  JOHNSON,  Co.  II,  June  2,  1864. 
HENRY    STARK,     Dec.   9,     1863  ;    reported    as    a    deserter 

Jan.  7,  1864. 

THIRTY-FIRST. 

CHARLES  E.  ASIA,  1st  Segt.  Co.  B,  Oct.  7,  1863. 
JOSEPH  HOOD,  1st  Sergt.  Co.  D,  Feb.  16,  1864. 
JOHN  II.  SMITH,  Corp.  Co.  D,  Feb.  20,  1864. 
JAMES  W.  YATKS  Co.  D,  Feb.  16,  1864,  and  mustered  out 
at  hospital,  David's  Island. 

FOIST  HEAVY    ARTILLERY. 

JEREMIAH   O'RILEY,  Co.    C,  May  23,  1861,  discharged  May 

22,  1864,  at  end  of  term  of  service. 

JAMES  W.  WEBB,  Co.  A,  April  10,  1862.       See  Obituary. 
MICHAEL  BURKE,  Co.  E,  May  23,  1861,  re-enl.  Dec.  10,  1863. 


94  STAMFORD   SOLDIERS5   MEMORIAL. 

JOSEPH  D.  PINKHAM,  Co.  C,  May  23,  1861.,  re-enl.  Nov. 
16,  1863. 

PATRICK  BAKER,  Co.  K,  May  23,  1861,  is  reported  on  Con- 
necticut catalogue  as  a  deserter,  Sept.  7,  1861.  He 
was  afterwards  in  the  Navy. 

MORRIS  CARROLL,  May  23,  1861.     See  10th  Conn. 

JAMES  LIND,  Co.  K,  May  23,  1861,  reported  deserter, 
Jan.  30,  1863. 

JOHN  MULHOLLAND,  Co.  K,  May  23,  1861 ;  and  discharged 
May  22,  1864,  on  the  expiration  of  his  term  of  enlistment. 

FRANCIS  B.  AVERT,  Co.  H,  Nov.  30,  1863.     See  Obituary. 

THEODORE  BEDIENT,  Co.  H,  Nov.  30, 1863. 

SQUIRE  S.  BIRDSELL,  Co.  H,  Nov.  28,  1863. 

GEORGE  W.  FINCH,  Co.  H,  Nov.  30,  1863. 

WILLIAM  FAGAN,  Co.  H,  Nov.  30,  1863. 

WILLIAM  H.  MONROE,  Co.  H,  Dec.  8,  1863.      See  Obituary. 

GEORGE  H.  POTT,  Co.  H,  Nov.  28, 1863. 

BENJAMIN  SELLECK,  Co.  G,  Dec.  7,  1863. 

ELI  STARR,  Co.  I,  Jan.  4,  1864,  from  Ham  den. 

SECOND    HEAVY    -ARTILLERY. 

WILLIAM  H.  BREWER,  Co.  A,  Jan.  2,  1864. 
EZRA  C.  BOUTON,  Co.  C,  Jan,  5,  1864.  See  Obituary. 

EDGAR  W.  CONKLIN,  Co.  D,  Dec.  30,  1863. 
JOHN  L.  CONKLIN,  Co.  D,  Dec.  30,  1863 
JOSEPH  H.  CANFIELD,  Co.  C,  Jan.  5,  1864. 
JAMES  HENRY,  Co.  D,  Jan.  1,  1864. 
JACOB  JUNE,  Co.  A,  Jan.  14,  1864. 

BANKS  LOUNSBURY,  Co.  I,  Jan.  28,  1864.     See  Obituary. 
ALEXANDER  McCoRMicK,  Co.  F,  Jan.  18,  1864. 
JOHN  O'BRIEN,  Co.  B,  Jan.  1,  1864. 
SAMUEL  S.  OSBORN,  Co.  M,  Feb.  11,  1864. 
PATRICK  RAIRDEN,  Feb.  5, 1864,  and  discharged  for  disability, 
May  23,  1864. 


MILITARY    SERVICE. NEW    YORK    REGIMENTS.  95 

CHAUNCEY  STEVENS,  Co.  K,  Jan.  5,  1864. 
GEORGE  TAYLOR,  Co.  C,  Dec.  30,  1863. 
JEREMIAH    CONNER,    Jan    5,    1864,    from    Bethel ;    has    a 
family  here. 

SECOND  LIGHT  BATTERY. 

ALLEN  WEBB,  Aug.  6,  1862,  and  discharged  Aug.  9,  1865. 
THOMAS  CARROL,  Feb.  18,  1864,  to  -June  30,  1864. 
MICHAEL  DONNELLY,  Feb.  18,  1864,  to  June  30,  1864. 
PATRICK  KELLEY,  Feb.  18,  1864  to  June  30,  1864. 
ALONZO    PECK,   Jan.    5,   1864 ;    reported   in    catalogue  of 

Connecticut  soldiers  as  a  deserter,  Jan.  19,1864. 
WILLIAM  TAYLOR,  Feb.  16,  1864,  to  June  30,  1864. 
JAMES  W.  WELCH,  Feb.  18,  1864,  to  June  30,  1864. 

FIRST    CAVALRY. 

JAMES  K.  STRAUT,  Sergt.  Co.  D,  Nov.  2,  1861  ;  re-enl.  2d 
Lieut.  Jan.  2,  1864,  promoted  1st  Lieut.  Feb.  26,  1664,  and 
captain,  Nov.  17,  1864,  and  mustered  out  Aug.  2,  1865. 

MICHAEL  CARRIGAN,  Co.  G,  April  8,  1864. 

DANIEL  CONNER. 

WARDELL  HKNDRICKS,  Co.  II,  Dec.  8,  1863. 

JOHN  A.  McCLELLAN,  Co.  M,  Dec.  30,  1863. 

JAMES  E.   BISHOP,  Co.   D,  Jan.   11,  1864. 

WM.  H.  BISHOP,  Co.  E,  Jan.  11,  1864,  and  discharged  Aug. 
20,  1865. 

NEW    YORK    REGIMENTS. 

HENRY  V.  SMITH,  1st  Cavalry  and  re-enlisted  into  12th  Cav- 
alry, serving  about  two  years.  While  on  a  scouting  ex- 
pedition in  iSov.,  1864,  near  Plymouth,  X.  C.,  he  was 
severely  wounded  by  a  ball  which  broke  through  the 
lower  jaw,  right  side,  and  passing  under  the  tongue  came 
out  under  the  left  ear.  He  recovered,  and  is  now  in  busi- 
ness in  Danbury. 

JAMES  E.  BJSIIOP,  1st  Mounted  Riilcs,  and  re-enl.  into  1st 
Conn.  Cavalry. 


96  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS5    MEMORIAL. 

ANTHONY  MILLER,  2d  State  Militia. 
RICHARD  MORE,  2d  State  Militia. 
HENRY  PACKET,  2d  State  Militia. 

PETER  O'NEIL,  4th  Heavy  Artillery. 

CHARLES  W.  KNAPP,  1st  sergeant  Co.  B,  5th,  Duryee's 
Zouaves,  was  taken  prisoner  at  Savage  Station,  June  29, 
1862.  He  was  in  prison  until  paroled,  July  25,  1863  ; 
and  for  many  months  suffered  severely  from  the  confine- 
ment. He  now  resides  in  Hamden,  Conn. 

MATTHEW  M.  WALSH,  Co.  B,  Duryee's  Zouaves,  and 
was  taken  prisoner  at  the  second  Bull  Run  fight,  Aug. 
31,  1862. 

ALBERT  SEAMAN  was  also  in  Duryee's  Zouaves. 

CHARLES  W.  SMITH  served  about  three  years  in  the  Duryee's 
Zouaves,  and  is  now  living  in  Montana. 

JAMES  L.  TAYLOR,  Duryee's  Zouaves.  See  Obituary. 

WATSON  B.  NICHOLS,  Duryee's  Zouaves,  April  19,  1861,  and 
was  in  the  fight  at  Great  Bethel.  He  was  mustered  out 
May  18,  1863,  after  his  term  of  service  had  expired. 
Re-enlisted  Nov.  14,  1863,  into  Co.  G,  1st  Mich- 
igan Heavy  Artillery.  Appointed  Hospital  Steward 
Feb.  14,  1864,  at  Jackson,  Miss.  Transferred  Aug. 
31,  1864,  as  2d  lieutenant  to  86th  United  States  Infantry 
and  promoted  captain  Oct.  12,  1865.  He  was  ap- 
pointed Provost  Marshal  and  Judge  Advocate  for  Southern 
District  of  Alabama.  Resigned  and  was  mustered  out 
April  30,  1866.  He  has  since  his  resignation  been  a 
student  of  medicine  at  Ann  Arbor  University. 

THOMAS  SKELDING,  enlisted  April  20,  1861,  into  Co.  B, 
Duryee's  Zouaves,  and  was  chosen  corporal.  He  was 
in  the  unfortunate  engagement  at  Great  Bethel.  In 
Oct.  of  the  same  year  he  was  commissioned  captain  Co. 
B,  10th  New  York  McChesney's  Zouaves,  and  resigned 
in  Feb.,  1862.  He  has,  since  leaving  the  service,  gra- 
duated M.  D.,  and  is  now  in  Europe  on  a  professional  visit 
to  several  prominent  hospital*. 

MICHAEL  O'NEIL,  Co.  K,  5th  Cavalry,  Ira  Harris  Guard, 
re-enlisted  veteran.  He  was  wounded  by  a  sabre  stroke 
in  the  face,  taken  prisoner  and  from  the  sufferings  of  his 


MILITARY    SERVICE. NEW    YORK    REGIMENTS.  97 

prison  life  has  never  recovered.  He  is  now  in  a  lunatic 
asylum. 

DAVID  H.  SCOFIELD,  Co.  K,  Ira  Harris  Guard.  Tn  a  raid 
made  by  this  famous  cavalry,  under  Dalgreen,  sergeant 
Scofield  learned  that  General  Henry  A.  Wise,  of  Virginia, 
was  in  the  vicinity  of  their  route,  and  made  an  attempt  to 
capture  him.  From  the  published  History  of  the  Kegi- 
ment,  we  take  this  account  of  the  attempt  :  "  He  went  to 
the  place  just  as  the  redoubtable  ex-governor  mounted  his 
horse.  Scofield  made  after  him,  and  quite  an  exciting 
chase  ensued.  The  hero  of  Hatteras  Island  was  not  inclined 
to  a  personal  encounter  even  with  a  single  man,  and  being 
well  mounted,  succeeded  in  making  his  escape."  In  that 
ever  memorable  victory  of  Cedar  Creek  Oct.  19,  1864, 
the  sergeant  captured  the  colors  of  the  12th  Virginia  In- 
fantry, for  which  gallant  service  he  received  a  medal  of 
honor,  from  the  Secretary  of  War.  It  is  on  record  res- 
pecting that  battle:  "among  the  regiments  that  partici- 
pated in  Sheridan's  victory  of  Get  19th,  none  equaled  the 
success  of  the  Fifth  New  York  Cavalry. v 

GEORGE  W.  TOMS,  Co.  K,  Ira  Harris  Guard.  Oct.  5,  1861, 
promoted  commissary-sergeant  in  1864,  and  returned 
home  as  1st  sergeant  in  July,  1865. 

THEODORE  NICHOLS,  6th  Cavalry,  1861,  and  re-enlisted 
veteran.  See  Obituary. 

WM.  H.  ROMKR,  6th  Heavy  Artillery,  and  served  three 
years.  He  came  to  Stamford  in  1864,  and  now  resides 
here. 

JAMFS  W.  D  ASK  AM,  on  the  opening  of  the  war,  promptly 
enlisted  into  the  7th  National  Guard. 

HENRY  H.  HOLLY,  Co.  1),  7th  National  Guard.  He  has 
recently  been  appointed  one  of  a  committee  of  five  from 
this  famous  regiment  "  on  Plans  and  Construction,"  for 
erecting  on  Central  Park  a  monument  to  those  of  its 
members  who  fell  during  the  war. 

WM.  W.  SMITH,  National  Guard. 

JAMES  R.  WARREN,  National  Guard. 

JOSEPH  C.  WARREN,  National  Guard. 

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98  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS'    MEMORIAL. 

WILLIAM  POWELL,  8th  K  Y.  S.  M. 

GEO.  A.  YOUNGS,  Co..  K,  8th  ]ST.  Y.  Heavy  Artillery. 

HORACE  GARDINER,  9th,  Hawkins'  Zouaves,  1861,  and  commis- 
sioned 2d  lieutenant  in  127th,  Monitor  Regiment,  and 
promoted  1st  lieutenant,  serving  about  three  years. 

LEWIS  GARDINER,  Hawkins'  Zouaves,  1861,  commissioned 
2d  lieutenant  in  127th,  Monitor  Regiment. 

JOHN  PARKER,  Co.  B,  Hawkins'  Zouaves,  served  two  years. 

WILLIAM  PARKER,  Hawkins'  Zouaves. 

JOHN  HOYT,  Hawkins'  Zouaves  and  served  two  years. 

EDGAR  TOMS,  Co.  B,  Hawkins'  Zouaves,  1861,  and  served 
two  years. 

GEORGE  TOMS,  Co.  B,  Hawkins'  Zouaves,  1861,  was  wounded 
at  Antietam  Sept.  11, 1862.  He  is  now  living  here. 

EDWARD  KROLLPHEIFFER,  Hawkins'  Zouaves. 

FREDERICK  WARNER,  Hawkins'  Zouaves,  went  into  the  64th 
New  York,  and  still  later  was  commissioned  2d  lieutenant 
in  the  10th  Army  Corps  d'At'rique. 

ALLEN  CHAMBERLAIN,  Co.  I,  12th  Cavalry  in  1862,  and  re- 
enlisted  into  Navy. 

Rev.  P.  S.  EVANS,  chaplain,  13th  Heavy  Artillery.  See 
page  31. 

WILLIAM  J.  WILSON,  17th  Infantry. 

CHARLES  E.  BETTS,  22d  Infantry. 
HIRAM  TOTTEN,  jr.,  22d  Infantry. 
JAMES  E.  BOUTON,  22d  Infantry. 
WM.  F.  HALLOCK,  22d  Infantry. 
CHARLES  SCOFIELD,  22d  Infantry. 
CHARLES  WESTON,  22d  Infantry. 

WILLIAM  NOLAN,  25th  Infantry,  1861,  was  wounded,  and  is 
now  in  Ireland. 

WILLIAM  McDoNAU),  25th  Infantry,  1861,  and  served  twenty- 
six  months. 

OSCAR  LASHER,  37th  Infantry. 

GEORGE  LOCK  WOOD,  38th  Infantry,  served  twenty-five  months. 


MILITARY    SERVICE. NEW    YOKK    REGIMENTS.  99 

FREDERICK  SHOWER,  39th  Infantry,  Garibaldi  Guards, 
served  three  years. 

SAMUEL  M.  PHYFE,  Co.  C,  47th  Infantry,  near  Ann apol is,  Md. 
JOHN  SULLIVAN,  47th  Infantry. 

BRADFORD  RAYMOND,  Co.  K,  48th  Infantry,  and  served  in  the 
5th  Army  Corps. 

GEORGE  FISH,  49th  Infantry,  was  color  bearer  in  the  Army 

of  the  Pot  omac. 
ALVA  INGERSOL,  49th  Infantry,  was  once  wounded  in  the 

service. 
CHARLES  II.  PALMER,  49th  Infantry,  and  transferred  with  a 

captain's  commission  to  the  6th  New  York  Artillery.     He 

was  once  wounded. 
JOHN  E.  WEED,  49th  Infantry,  and  re-enlisted  veteran. 

JOSEPH  GIBSON,  Co.  K,  59th  Infantry,  then  to  54th  Infantry 
and  then  to  84th  Ohio  Infantry. 

EDWIN  R.  D  ALLEY,  Co.  G,  67th  Infantry.       See  Obituary. 
MICHAEL  HANNAGAN,  69th  Infantry. 

JOHN  W.  MILLER,  Company  B,  71st  Infantry,  was  called  out 
to  repel  Lee's  invasion  in  June  1863. 

EDWARD  A.  Q.UINTARD,  captain  Co.  B,  New  York  National 
Guard,  Engineer  Corps,  and  was  on  guard  duty  in  the 
vicinity  of  Washington.  See  Stamford  History,  page  407. 

GEO.  W.  WEED,  71st  Infantry,  after  three  months  service 
enlisted  again  into  the  17th  Conn. 

WILLIAM  E.  WHITE,  90th  Infantry.  See  Obituary. 

JOHN  II.  McDoNALD,  82d  New  York.  See  Obituary. 

Rev.  EBEN  FRANCIS,  chaplain,  127th,  Monitor.  See  page  32. 
EDWARD  OLDRIN.  127th,  Monitor,  and  after  serving  about 
sixteen  months  was  discharged  for  disability. 

THEODORE  MILLER,  from  K)th  Connecticut,  re-enlisted  into 
Co.  A,  139th  New  York  Volunteers.  He  was  commis- 
sioned lieutenant  Sept.  9,  1862,  promoted  captain  March 
9,  1863,  and  major  Oct.  14,  1864.  He  was  appointed 
colonel  in  the  Corps  d'Afrique  April  12,  1865,  but  did  not 


100  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS'    MEMORIAL. 

muster.     As  soldier  and  officer  he  has  a  creditable  record. 
FRANKLIN  A.  JONES,  served  in  Scott's  Life  Guard. 

BENJAMIN  R.  SAUNDERS,  was  in  a  New  York  Heavy  Artil- 
lery regiment. 

JOHN    HANFORD,  was  successively  in  two  regiments  of  Ne^ 

York. 
JAMES  MCCARTY,  left  the  employ  of  the  Phoenix  Company 

and  enlisted  in  a  New  York  regiment,  and  served  two 

years. 
J  OHN  H.  SEARLES,  was  in  a  New  i'ork  regiment. 

HENRY  C.  SEARLES,  from  13th  Conn,  went  into  a  New  York 
Cavalry  regiment. 

REGIMENTS  OF  OTHER  STATES. 
JAMES  R.  AYRES,  Co.  C,  3d  Michigan.           See  Obituary. 

FREDERICK  BISHOP,  5th  New  Jersey  Battery,  was  discharged 

for  disability. 
HANFORD  BISHOP,  5th  New  Jersey  Battery. 

JOHN  CARROL,  Co.  A,  32d  Ohio,  Nov.  22, 1864,  from  Toledo. 
He  served  to  the  end  of  tHe  war  when  he  came  to  Stam- 
ford with  his  family. 

SAMUEL  FESSENDEN  was  mustered  into  the  service  of  the 
United  States,  March  3,  1864,  at  sixteen  years  of  age,  as 
a  private  in  7th  Maine  Battery,  1st  Regiment  Light  Ar- 
tillery. He  was  appointed  1st  lieutenant  2d  Regiment 
United  States  Infantry,  Dec.  14,  1864,  and  captain  of 
Infantry,  Dec.  20,  1864.  His  bravery,  good  conduct  in 
battle,  and  fitness  to  command  had  attracted  the  notice  of 
his  superior  officers,  and  having  been  warmly  recom- 
mended for  a  commission  in  the  artilleiT  service,  he 
declined  promotion  in  the  infantry.  He  was  commissioned 
2d  lieutenant,  1st  Battery,  Maine  Light  Infantry,  Jan. 
18,  1865,  and  detailed  to  the  staff  of  major-general  A.  P. 
Howe,  May  1,  1865,  serving  in  that  position  till  the  close 
of  the  war.  At  the  battles  of  the  Wilderness,  Spotsyl- 
vania,  North  and  South  Anna,  Cold  Harbor,  Petersburg, 
Weldon  R.  R.,  The  Mine  Explosion,  Reams  Station, 


MILITARY    SERVICE. REGIMENTS    OF    OTHER    STATES.       101 

Poplar  Grove  Church,  and  Hatcher's  Run,  he  did  good 
service,  receiving  the  universal  commendations  of  his 
superior  officers  in  every  position  in  which  he  served.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  Fairfield  County  Bar,  March  4,  1869, 
and  is  now  completing  his  legal  studies  at  Harvard  Law 
School.  The  family  have  resided  in  Stamford  since  1866. 

PHILO  C.  FULLER,  2d  Illinois  Volunteers.      See  Obituary. 

EMMET  M.  HOYT,  3d  Maryland  and  also  in  a  New  York 
regiment.  See  Obituary. 

SAMUEL  C.  INGERSOLL,  3d  Maryland,  was  wounded  at  Antie- 
tam  and  discharged. 

PETER  HURD,  14th  Rhode  Island  Heavy  Artillery,  Oct.  14, 
1863. 

JAMES  KEEGAN,  Co.  K,  18th  Kentucky,  in  1864,  and  came  to 
Stamford  at  the  end  of  the  war. 

JOSEPH  S.  LOCKWOOD,  141st  Penn.  See  Obituary. 

RICHARD  PIERSON,  3d  Maryland. 

WILLIAM  E.  SCOFIELD,  74th  Illinois.  See  Obituary. 

GEORGE  YANDERVALDT,  1st  Reserve  Cavalry,  Pennsylvania. 
See  Obituary. 

PIERRE  R.  HOLLY,  M.  D.,  appointed  assistant  surgeon  in  the 
spring  of  1863,  and  assigned  to  the  Douglas  Hospital, 
Washington  City.  After  the  Gettysburg  battles,  he  was 
assigned  to  the  22d  Wisconsin  Infantry,  and  remained 
in  the  service  until  discharged  at  his  request  in  the  spring 
of  1864.  Having,  previously  to  the  war,  practiced  in  the 
West  Indies  and  in  Greenwich,  Conn.,  lie  settled  here  in 
his  profession  in  1866. 

The  following  citizens  of  the  town  were  in  the  service  of 
the  Government,  though  not  connected  with  any  particular 
regiment : 

GEORGE  E.  BADGER,  M.  D.,  who  left  his  practice  here,  with 
a  commission  as  contract  surgeon,  and  was  stationed  at 
David's  Island. 


102  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS5    MEMORIAL. 

JOHN  DAVENPORT  was  aid  to  colonel  John  H.  Almy,  assis- 
tant-quarter-master-general of  Connecticut,  and  stationed 
at  New  York  for  supplying  the  Connecticut  and  Rhode 
Island  volunteers. 

JOHN  C.  MINOR,  M.  D.,  commissioned,  April  1,  1863,  acting 
assistant  surgeon,  U.  S.  A.,  after  having  voluntarily  served 
on  Hospital  Ships  of  the  Sanitary  Commission  during  the 
preceding  year.  Was  in  the  Army  of  Cumberland  until 
Feb.  3,  1864,  when  he  was  ordered  to  Harrisburg,  Perm., 
to  take  charge  of  Port  Hospital.  He  resigned  Oct.  4, 
1864. 

Rev.  J.  H.  PARKS,  commissioned  chaplain,  July  5,  1862,  and 
assigned  to  Carver  Hospital,  Washington  City.  See 
Stamford  History,  page  327. 

JOHN  T.  RILEY  was  acting  quarter-master  at  Washington 
City  and  elsewhere. 

SAMUEL  C.  STAPLES,  assistant  paymaster  U.  S.  A. 

HENNEL  STEVENS  entered  the  service  as  medical  purveyor  at 
Cairo,  Ills.,  in  1862,  and  was  ordered  to  Memphis  in  May, 
1865.  The  testimony  to  his  good  service  is  abundant. 
The  Memphis  Daily  Commercial  at  the  close  of  the  war 
said  of  him  :  "  He  deserves  well  of  the  Department.  He 
has  displayed  not  only  tact  and  skill  but  all  the  qualities 
of  patient  endurance  so  necessary  to  a  fair  performance  of 
duty."  At  the  close  of  the  war  he  purchased  a  plantation 
in  Texas  for  cultivation. 

UNITED    STATES   ARMY. 

DAVID  C.  COMSTOOK,  Jr.,  from  Co.  H,  17th  Conn.,  entered 
Jan.  9,  1864,  the  United  States  Army  as  hospital  steward. 
He  was  first  ordered  to  Louisville,  Ky..  and  then  to  New 
Albany,  Illinois.  He  was  next  sent  to  forts  Selden  and 
Oummingp,  in  New  Mexico.  At  all  of  these  posts  he 
rendered  valuable  service,  and  continued,  until  his  health 
failing,  he  was  obliged  to  leave.  He  was  honorably  dis- 
charged, Jan.  31,  1867.  He  has  since  been  a  student  in 
medicine,  at  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.,  and  in  the  Bellevue  Medi- 
cal College,  of  New  York  City. 


MILITARY    SERVICE. UNITED    STATES    ARMY.  103 

GEORGE  W.  CHAMBERLAIN,  from  Co.  B,  17th  Conn.  Vol., 
enlisted  into  a  regiment  of  the  U.  S.  Cavalry,  Feb.  3,  1863. 

PATRICK  FARREL,  enlisted  in  1859  in  the  regular  U.  S.  Army 
He  had  one  of  his  legs  broken  at  Petersburg,  Va.,  where 
he  was  struck  by  nine  balls. 

SAMUEL  B.  FERRIS,  educated  at  West  Point,  class  ot  1861, 
graduated  2d  lieutenant,  and  assigned  to  the  8th  U".  S.  Inf. 
He  was  with  his  regiment  at  the  first  Bull  Run  rout  of 
June  21,  1861,  and  until  his  commission  as  Colonel  of  the 
28th  Conn.  Vol.  On  the  expiration  of  his  commission  he 
returned  to  his  regiment  as  1st  Lieut.,  until  transferred 
with  captain's  commission  to  the  20th  U.  S.  Infantry.  In 
1867,  he  was  ordered  with  his  regiment  to  the  Indian 
country  on  the  North  West,  and  is  now  stationed  at  Fort 
Saunders,  Wyoming  Territory. 

FRANCIS  M.  HOLLY,  appointed  assistant  surgeon  in  the  winter 
of  1862,  and  assigned  to  Hospital  at  Portsmouth,  opposite 
Norfolk,  Va.  He  resigned  in  1863,  and  returned  to  the 
practice  of  his  profession.  In  1868  he  WHS  appointed 
surgeon  in  the  Tinted  States  Army,  and  is  now  with  his 
regiment  at  Belton,  Texas. 

JOHN  L.  IIoYT,  Co.  B.,  1st  IT.  S.  Reg.  Art.,  Nov.  4,  1862, 
from  which,  at  the  expiration  of  his  term  of  enlistment,  he 
was  discharged  Sept.  5,  1864.  In  this  arm  of  the  service,  he 
was  in  sixteen  severe  engagements.  In  the  raid  in  Florida 
from  the  7th  to  the  17th  of  Feb.,  1864,  as  his  discharge 
testifies,  he  traveled  780  miles,  and  in  Virginia,  from  the 
20th  to  the  30th  of  June,  696  miles.  'lie  was  once 
knocked  from  his  horse  by  a  ball  while  in  action,  and  had 
two  horses  shot  under  him. 

WILLIAM  P.  JONES,  on  the  opening  of  the  war,  as  our  record 
of  the  Citizen  Service  shows,  promptly  tendered  his  ser- 
vices to  the  Government.  He  was  appointed  aid-de-camp 
on  the  staff  of  Major-General  .John  E.  Wool,  April  24, 
1861,  with  rank  of  colonel  of  volunteers.  He  rendered 
valuable  service  in  New  York,  in  the  spring  and  summer 
of  1861,  to  the  Tnion  Aid  Committee.  Sept.  2<».  1861, 
he  was  appointed  aid-de-camp,  with  the  rank  of  major  in 


104  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS5    MEMORIAL. 

the  regular  army,  and  ordered  to  report  to  Gen.  "Wool.  In 
this  capacity,  he  served  at  Fortress  Monroe,  Va.  He  was 
appointed  rrovost  Marshal,  Gen.  of  the  Dept.  of  Virginia, 
and  assisted  at  the  taking  of  Yorktown  and  Norfolk.  On 
the  removal  of  General  Wool,  in  1862,  to  Baltimore,  he 
was  appointed  Mil.  Pro.  Mar.  of  the  Mid.  Dept.,  embrac- 
ing Maryland,  Pennsylvania  and  New  Jersey.  He  was 
very  active  and  efficient  in  organizing  the  aid  of  negroes 
in  the  war.  His  health  at  length  gave  way,  and  he  resigned, 
though  not  before  he  had  earned  "  for  gallant  and  meritorous 
service,"  his  commission  of  brevet  brig.  -general  of  volun- 
teers, dating  from  March  13,  1865.  Few  of  our  citizens 
sacrificed  as  much  in  leaving  business  to  enter  the  service 
of  the  government  as  General  Jones,  as  none  had  entered 
into  the  support  of  the  war  more  heartily  than  he. 

JOHN  MANNING,  June  16.  1860,  3d  IT.  S.  Cavalry,  in  which 
arm  of  the  service  he  continued  until  July  14,  1867,  when 
he  was  honorably  discharged.  He  was  a  sergeant  in  his 
company,  and  at  Memphis  was  orderly  on  the  staff  of 
General  Grant,  and  afterwards  was  orderly  to  General 
Sherman.  He  is  now  living  here. 


HENRY  O'J^EiL,  Co.  B,  oth  IT.  S.  infantry,  early  in  the  war, 
and  still  remains  in  the  service. 

ALBERT  M.  POWELL.  See  Obituary. 

HENRY  ROCKWELL,  M.  D.,  surgeon  in  the  17.  S.  Army.  On 
leaving  the  28th  Conn.  Vol.  he  was  stationed  a  while  at 
Fort  Schuyler.  He  is  now  on  duty  at  Fort  Totten, 
Dacota  Territory. 

JAMES  SCOFIELD,  in  1859  entered  the  IT.  S.  Army,  and  was 
assigned  to  the  4th  regiment  of  infantry  . 

EDWIN  L.  SMITH,  Sept.  2,  1864,  was  transferred  from  the 
1  7th  Conn.  Yol.  to  Co.  A,  9th  IT.  S.  Reserves.  He  was 
taken  prisoner  in  Florida. 

FRANCIS  L.  STILL,  Oct.  13,  1863,  transferred  from  6th  Conn. 
Yol.  to  Signal  Corps  in  the  U.  S.  Army. 

WILLIAM   J.  SLOAN,   of  Pennsylvania,    appointed    assistant 


MILITARY    SERVICE. UNITED    STATES    ARMY.  105 

surgeon  in  the  II.  S.  Army,  1837.  Served  in  Florida 
during  the  Seminole  war,  1837-40 ;  in  the  Choctaw 
country  west  of  Arkansas,  at  Forts  Towson  and  Washita, 
from  1840  to  1841 ;  stationed  in  Philadelphia  in  1845; 
next  year  ordered  to  New  Orleans,  where,  and  at  Baton 
Rouge  he  remained  until  1849,  when  he  was  sent  again  to 
Florida  until  1853.  In  1856  promoted  surgeon,  and 
ordered  to  New  Mexico,  holding  the  position  of  medical 
director,  Department  of  New  Mexico,  until  1860.  After 
four  months'  leave  of  absence,  he  was  assigned  to  duty  at 
Governor's  Island,  New  York  harbor,  where  the  opening 
of  the  rebellion  found  him.  Was  then  ordered  to  New 
York  City  as  Supt.  of  Hospitals.  Under  his  supervision 
the  Transport  Service  was  organized,  and  provision  made 
for  patients  from  the  seat  of  war.  As  assistant  medical 
director  of  the  department,  he  also  aided  in  organizing 
twenty-eight  general  hospitals  in  New  England,  New  York 
and  New  Jersey,  which  comprised  in  all  twenty-five 
thousand  beds.  In  1862  he  was  ordered  to  Minnesota  as 
medical  director  of  the  department  of  the  North-West, 
but  was  in  a  few  months  returned  to  his  post  in  New 
York,  where  he  subsequently  became  medical  director  of 
the  department  until  the  close  of  the  war.  The  number 
of  sick  and  wounded  soldiers  cared  for  in  this  department 
during  his  term  of  service,  was  about  one  hundred  and 
fifty  thousand.  For  his  services  thus  rendered,  he  was 
successively  breveted  lieutenant-colonel,  colonel  and 
brigadier  general.  He  still  continues  in  New  York  on 
duty,  as  chief  medical  officer,  with  the  usual  routine  of 
duties  in  time  of  peace,  his  residence  being,  as  for  several 
years,  in  Stamford. 

DAVID  PI.  VINTON,  graduated  at  West  Point,  1822,  entering 
the  U.  S.  A.  as  lieutenant  in  the  Artillery  service.  He 
had  been  in  various  branches  of  the  service,  as  an  efficient 
officer  both  in  time  of  peace  and  of  war  ;  until  the  war  of 
1861-5  found  him  chief  quartermaster  of  the  Department 
of  Texas,  headquarters,  San  Antonio,  where  he  was  taken 
prisoner  by  the  rebels  and  paroled.  During  our  war  for 

the  suppression  of  the  rebellion,  he  has  rendered  impor- 

N 


106  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS'    MEMORIAL. 

tant  services  to  the  Government.  He  was  colonel  in  the 
Volunteer  Army  from  Aug.  2,  1864,  to  July  29,  1866. 
Chief  quartermaster  at  New  York  City,  for  supplying  the 
army  with  clothing  and  equipage  from  June  28,  1861,  to 
July,  1867,  (ex-officio).  Brevet  brigadier  general  U.  S. 
Army,  March  13,  1865,  and  brevet  major  general  U.  S. 
Army,  March  13,  1865,  for  faithful  and  meritorious  ser- 
vices during  the  rebellion.  He  was  retired  from  active 
service,  July  29,  1866,  and  now  resides  on  the  corner  of 
North  street  and  Adams  Avenue. 

JAMES  WRIGHT,  IT.  S.  Army,  Feb.   22,  1863,  but  to  what 
arm  of  the  service  is  not  known. 


MILITARY     SERVICE. 


107 


The  following  citizens,  being  liable  to  service,  some  of 
whose  names  have  already  appeared  on  our  list  as  having  ren- 
dered good  service  in  the  field,  sent  also,  substitutes  or  paid 
the  commutation.  Probably  some  of  them  are  represented 
on  our  previous  lists  of  recruits,  though  many  of  their  sub- 
stitutes were  assigned  to  unknown  regiments.  For  other 
substitutes,  not  legally  required,  see  pages  33  and  34.  The 
names  of  the  substitutes  would  have  been  added  but  for  the 
impossibility  of  getting  them : 


JOHN  DAVENPORT, 
THEO.  DAVENPORT, 
ALEX.  II.  WEED, 
FRANK  HOYT, 
HIRAM  CURTIS, 
CHARLES  II.  BROWN, 
GEORGE  L.  WARREN, 
OTTO  LOESCHEGK, 
JOHN  DAY  FERGUSON, 
SAMUEL  FERGUSON, 
ANDREW  STARK, 
LEWIS  K.  HURLBUTT, 
CHARLES  P.  HOLMES, 
OLIVER  HOYT, 
SAMUEL  II.  HOLMES, 
EDWARD  F.  LEEDS, 
CHARLES  W.  WARDWELL, 


JOHN  ST.  JOHN, 
WM.  W.  SKIDDY, 
WILLIAM  C.  WILLCOX, 
SAMUEL  B.  HOYT, 
JAMES  SMITH, 
DWIGHT  WAUGH, 
CHARLES  W.  HOYT, 
CHARLES  II.  HOLLY, 
CYRUS  D.  JONES, 
ISAAC  S.  JONES, 
JOHN  H.  BRUSH, 
CHARLES  W.  BROWN, 
ROBERT  B.  SCOFIELD, 
ELBERT  JUNE, 
GEORGE  P.  WATERBURY, 
ROBERT  SWARTWOUT, 
SATTERLEE  SWARTWOUT. 


108  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS'    MEMORIAL. 

The  following  citizens,  upon  being  drafted,  supplied  sub- 
stitutes : 

JAMES  B.  DAVENPORT,  CHARLES  M.  SCOFIELD, 

JAMES  H.  OLMSTEAD,  EDGAR  S.  WEED, 

WALTER  FERGUSON,  CHATJNCEY  PROVOST, 

ALEXANDER  RAEBURN,  E.  S.  GIFFORD, 

JOSEPH  E.  LOCKWOOD,  LEROY  SCOFIELD, 

EDWARD  F.  BROWN,  CHARLES  J.  SMITH, 

JOHN  ROSBOROUGH,  ALONZO  STEVENS, 

EDWARD  HANNAGAN,  R.  S.  MILLER, 

EDWARD  KENNADY,  CHARLES  E.  THOMPSON. 

For  special  and  very  delicate,  as  well  as  difficult  service 
rendered  the  Government  during  the  war,  we  should  here 

o  7 

record  the  name  and  official  position  of  WM.  T.  MINOR, 
L.L.D.,  ex-governor  of  the  State.  It  is  due  equally  to  him- 
self and  to  our  town  to  add  to  his  citizen  service,  See  Part  I, 
his  official  services,  also,  as  Consul  General  at  Havana. 
Though  not  to  be  traced  out,  as  the  march  and  conquest  of 
an  army,  it  is  still  true  that  his  services  in  diplomacy  while 
at  Havana  were  as  important  to  our  cause,  as  victories  on 
the  battle  field.  On  leaving  his  post,  he  was  honored  by 
very  abundant  and  nattering  official  testimonials  to  his  suc- 
cessful mission.  See  Stamford  History,  p.  376. 


PART    THIRD. 


NAVAL    SERVICE. 


NA.VA.L    SERVICE. 


The  following  catalogue  contains  the  list  of  those  who 
rendered  good  service  to  the  Government  of  the  United 
States  in  the  Navy  during  the  war.  Many  a  gallant  deed 
was  performed  by  these  representatives  of  the  town  which 
history  will  never  report. 

WILLIAM  D.  ADAMS,  April  3,  1862,  as  boy,  and  in  two  months 
promoted  landsman. 

HENRY  II.  ANDERSON,  Sept.  1863,  landsman  and  served  one 
year. 

S.  L.  P.  AYRES,  appointed  assistant  engineer  in  1858, 
making  his  first  cruise  in  the  Roanoke,  the  Flag  Ship  of 
the  Home  Squadron.  In  1860,  assigned  to  duty  in  Brook- 
lyn Navy  Yard.  In  March,  1861,  ordered  to  Lake  duty 
on  the  Michigan  ;  and  soon  transferred  to  the  Frigate 
Pensacola,  in  Farragut's  expedition  against  New  Orleans. 
Was  in  the  engagements  at  forts  Philip  and  Jackson  and 
present  at  the  surrender  of  New  Orleans.  Was  promoted 
chief  engineer  and  assigned  to  the  Nipsic,  on  blockade 
duty  off  Charleston.  Assigned  next,  in  1865,  to  the 
Juniata  as  her  chief,  and  ordered  to  the  Brazilian  waters, 
and,  in  1867,  ordered  to  Portsmouth  Navy  Yard  as  in- 
specting engineer,  where  he  is  still  on  duty.  He  made  a 
good  record  for  himself  during  the  war.  In  the  engage- 
ment of  April  35,  1862,  on  the  Mississippi,  he  boarded  a 
rebel  man-of-war  and  brought  off  with  him  the  rebel 
colors,  as  one  trophy  of  his  prowess. 

PATRICK  BAKER,  Sept.  1,  1863,  a  seaman. 


112  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS5    MEMORIL. 

CHARLES  H.  BRANTINGHAM,  at  the  opening  of  the  war  was 
on  the  last  year  of  his  course  at  the  Naval  Academy, 
Annapolis,  Md.  He  was  ordered  to  the  Somerset,  March 
10,  1862,  as  navigator  and  drill  officer,  from  which  he  was 
sent  as  drill  master  to  the  two  ships  Amanda  and  Hend- 
rick  Hudson,  from  which  he  returned  as  navigator  to  the 
Somerset,  and  promoted  ensign.  He  "was  then  promoted 
to  command  the  Icilda,  and  subsequently  was  connected 
with  the  Cherokee  and  Honduras,  and  in  command  of  the 
Sunflower.  He  saw  the  beginning  of  his  service  as  a 
detail  to  protect  the  Constitution,  in  Annapolis  Roads, 
1861.  He  was  in  several  sharp  engagements,  and  success- 
ful in  taking  several  prizes  —the  Circassian,  the  Curlew, 
the  Hortense.  In  June  1865,  ordered  to  the  Winooski, 
at  the  Dock  trial  of  the  Winooski  and  Algonquin  in  New 
York.  Promoted  master,  July  3,  1865,  and  ordered  to 
N.  Y.  Navy  Yard,  Jan.  17,  1866.  An  incident  in  his 
service  is  a  good  illustration  of  his  personal  character  and 
spirit.  He  had  been  ordered  while  on  the  Appilachicola 
to  reconnoiter  in  citizen's  dress.  He  demanded  the  order 
in  writing,  and  when  he  had  secured  it,  he  coolly  informed 
his  commander  that  he  should  obey  no  such  order,  though 
he  would  cheerfully  volunteer  the  service  in  his  uniform. 
As  witness  to  his  readines  to  dare,  when  duty  called,  he 
still  has  a  rebel  flag  which  he  personally  captured  at 
Appilachicola.  He  resigned  his  commission,  April  18, 
1867,  and  is  in  business  in  New  York. 

PETER  CAVANOUGH,  1st  quartermaster,  March  2,  1863. 
ALLEN  CHAMBERLAIN,  May  17,  1864,  landsman. 
PETER  CONROY,  May  8,  1864,  landsman. 

CHARLES  I.  DAYTON,  Aug.  7,  1862,  landsman  in  the  East 
Gulf  Squadron. 

DAVID  DECKER,  master's  mate  in  Burnside  expedition,  1862. 

PETER  DECKER,  master's  mate  in  Porter's  Morter  Fleet, 
1862. 

JAMES  DELAMATER,  Aug.  10,  1862.  seaman. 

CORNELIUS  DEVER,  July  20,  1864,  seaman. 

RICHARD  DEVER,  Oct.,  1863,  landsman  and  promoted  seaman. 


NAVAL      SRRVICE.  113 

DANIEL  DILLON,  Sept.  9,  1862,  seaman,  and  again  Sept.  20, 
1864. 

RICHARD  DILLON,  Oct.,  1863. 

DAVID  R.  DREW,  June,  1864,  the  second  time,  ship  Sara- 
toga. 

GEO.  A.  EBBETTS,  captain's  clerk,  April,  1864,  and  sailed  in 
June  on  the  Bienville.  In  the  action  in  Mobile  Bay, 
Aug.  1864,  he  is  reported  by  lieutenant  Huntington,  of 
the  Oneida,  to  which  he  had  volunteered  for  more  active 
service  as  being  very  courageous.  Though  knocked 
down,  at  the  same  time  that  his  captain  was  wounded, 
he  rallied  himself,  and  with  the  utmost  coolness,  in  the 
midst  of  whizzing  death  shots,  ministered  to  the  needs  of 
the  wounded. 

ISIDORE  FERRIS,  captain's  clerk,  May  1,  1864. 

BENJAMIM  F.  FRENCH,  May  16.  1864,  first  class  boy. 

THOMAS  Fox,  July  15,  1861,  first  class  boy  and  promoted 
landsman. 

JOHN  GAGAN,  from  28th  Conn.  Vol.,  Sept.  1,  1863,  lands- 
man. 

LEWIS  GARDNER. 

JOSEPH  GARDNER. 

CIIAS.  II.  TAYLOR,  master's  mate,  Dec.  23, 1863,  and  assigned 
to  the  Proteus. 

JOSEPH  GIBSON  served  one  year. 

JAMES  H.  GIBLIN,  Aug,  11,  1864. 

GEO.  "W.  GLENDINING,  paymaster's  clerk,  Feb.  1,  1864. 

THEODORE  M.  HALLOCK,  Dec.  16,  1863,  landsman  one  year. 

FRANCIS  M.  HAWLEY,  Act.- Ass.-Paym aster,  Aug.  30,  1862, 
and  assigned  to  the  Carondelet,  at  Cairo,  Ills. 

ALBERT  HOBBY,  served  a  year  with  captain  John  Ketchum. 

THEODORE  HOBBY. 

JOHN  M.  HOLLY,  Aug.  9,  1862,  landsman  and  discharged 
Sept.  9,  1863. 

GEORGE  HUDSON,  Aug.  10,  1862,  seaman. 

SAMUEL  II.   JOHNSON,  entered  the  Navy,  Kov.  9,  I860,  ap- 


114  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS'    MEMORIAL. 

pointed  acting  master's  mate,  Oct.  31,  1861,  on  Suwanee. 
He  was  later  in  command  of  bark  Midnight,  and  received 
his  discharge,  Dec.  23,  1865. 

MARTIN  KANE,  Sept.  9,  1862,  landsman. 
DANIEL  KENNEDY,  seaman  in  1861. 
DENNIS  KENNEDY,  May,  1862,  seaman. 

JOHN  KETCHAM,  assistant  master's  mate,  and  acting  master 

in  the  Potomac  Flotilla. 
JOHN  KILEY. 
HENRY  K.   LAPHAM,  a  7iative  of  Stamford,  acting  master 

mate,    Oct.    3,    1861,    assigned   during   the   war   to   the 

Suwanee. 

ZOPIIAR  LAWRENCE,  sailed  with  captain  Ketcham. 
HENRY  LEE,  Feb.,  1862,  seaman  on  the  Matthew  Vassar. 
JOHN  LEONARD,  June  7,  1861,  and  re-eul.,  1865,  landsman. 
GEORGE  LLOYD,  Sept.  1,  1863,  seaman. 
ALBERT  L.  LOCKWOOD,  Feb.,  1862,  seaman. 
WM.  B.  LL-M,  Dec.  23,  1863,  first  class  boy. 
MICHAEL  MANAHAN,  April,  1864,  seaman. 
PATRICK  McKEON,  1862. 

AUGUSTUS  F.  MILLER,  Sept.  19,  1861,  acting  master's  mate. 
JOHN  M.  NEWMAN,  Act.  3d  Ass.  Engineer  Sept.  3,  1864. 

EDWARD  F.  NICHOLS,  from  3d  Conn.  Vol.,  Oct.  28,  1864, 
ship  Chippewa. 

PETER  O'NEIL,  1861,  on  Oneida  in  the  Gulf,  and  after- 
wards went  into  the  Cavalry  Service. 

HENRY  O'NEIL. 

PETER  RANKIN,  Feb.  14,  1862,  as  boy,  and  promoted  lands- 
man. 

JAMES  H.  ROWAN,  May  27,  1864,  honorary  seaman. 

GEORGE  A.  SCOFIELD,  Sept,  10,  1862,  IT.  S.  Marine  Corps 
for  four  years ;  taken  prisoner  by  the  Alabama  in  the 
Caribbean  sea  in  1863. 

JOHN  O.  SCOFIELD,  served  first  as  medical  steward  in  hospi- 
tals in  Virginia.  In  1866  was  with  the  U.  S.  Squadron 


NAVAL      SERVICE.  115 

which  visited  Europe,  and  is  now  a  practicing  physician  in 
Bedford,  New  York. 

WALTER  K.  SCOFIELD,  assistant  surgeon,  June  20,  1861,  and 
promoted  surgeon  in  1866.  During  the  war  was  in  various 
hospitals  in  Boston,  New  York,  Norfolk,  Key  West,  Pen- 
sacola,  and  New  Orleans ;  was  at  the  bombardment  of 
Sumpter,  capture  of  Appalachicola,  and  on  blockading 
service  at  Galveston  and  Mobile.  Was  surgeon  of  the 
squadron  which  visited  Europe  in  1866,  making  the  tour  of 
Russia,  Sweden,  Prussia,  England,  and  Italy.  He  now 
has  his  headquarters  in  Boston. 

HOBBY  SELLECK,  July  2,  1864,  seaman.          See  Obituary. 

FREDERICK  SHOWER  was  reported  in  the  naval  service. 

ROBERT  W.  SIIUFELDT  dates  his  service  in  the  U.  S.  navy 
from  May  11,  1839.  In  March,  1861,  he  was  appointed 
Consul-General  to  Cuba,  and  was  the  right  man  for  the 
office  when  our  recent  war  opened.  He  re-entered  the 
Navy  as  commander,  in  May,  1863,  and  was  assigned  to  the 
steamer  Proteus,  his  commission  dating  from  Nov.  19, 
1862.  He  served  one  year  off  Charleston,  and  participated 
in  the  capture  of  Morris  Island.  He  had,  later,  command 
on  the  West  coast  of  Florida,  and  co-operated  with  our 
gun-boats  in  the  attack  by  the  army  on  St.  Marks,  one  of 
the  last  actions  of  the  war. 

ROBERT  SIIUFELDT,  Jr.,  April  9,  1863,  captain's  clerk  on  the 
Proteus. 

HENRY  T.  SKELDING,  Dec.  31,  1862,  acting  assistant  pay- 
master, and  assigned  to  the  Petrel  at  Cairo  ;  com  missioned 
passed  assistant  paymaster,  March  5,  1867,  and  is  now  on 
waiting  orders. 

JAMES  SNIFFIN,  Aug.  7,  1862,  landsman,  and  re-enl.  Aug.  17, 
1864,  2d  class  fireman  one  year. 

CLARK  STEVENS,  July  20, 1864,  as  boy,  and  promoted  seaman. 

HENRY  STEINART. 

HENRY  STOTTLAR,  Dec.  1861,  seaman.  See  Obituary. 

CHARLES  J.  TODD,  April  11,  1863,  assistant  paymaster,  U.  S. 
steamer  Shockokon,  serving  through  the  war. 

ANDREW  WALTER,  Dec.  18,  1863.  landsman  on  the  Hartford. 


116  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS'    MEMORIAL. 

JAMES  W.  WATERBURY,  June  30,  1864,  screw  steamer  Hart- 
ford, at  the  capture  of  Fort  Morgan,  Mobile  Bay,  and  con- 
tinuing in  the  service  until  February,  1868. 

JAMES  WEED,  first-class  firemen,  Nov.  14,  1862. 
JAMES  WELCH,  Aug.  24,  1862,  landsman. 

GEORGE  E.  WHITNEY,  June  2,  1862,  assistant  engineer  on 
the  Mohawk,  taken  prisoner  in  Florida,  May  3,  1864,  and 
paroled  in  Octber,  same  year. 

HERCULES  WICKS,  28  years  old,  Jan.  1,  1862,  on  the  flag  ship 
of  Burnside's  expedition. 

M.  P>.  WOOLSEY,  son  of  Commodore  Woolsey,  entered  the 
U.  S.  Navy  Sept.  24,  1832,  and  commissioned  commander 
July  16,  1861.  Before  the  war  he  had  been  for  some  time 
retired  from  duty,  having  been  greatly  reduced  by  the 
fever,  taken  while  on  duty  on  the  African  coast.  At  his 
own  request  he  was  assigned  again  to  duty  early  in  the 
war,  and  in  1865  he  was  reported  in  command  of  the 
Princess  Royal.  He  is  now  fleet  captain  in  the  South 
American  Squadron. 

EDWARD  YOUNGS,  Dec.  2,  1862,  as  first-class  boy  and  became 
seamen. 

WILLIAM  D.  WHITING,  entered  the  navy  March  1,  1841,  as 
midshipman,  and  was  past-midshipman  1848.  The  open- 
ing of  the  recent  war  found  him  lieutenant  on  the  North 
Carolina,  receiving  ship.  On  the  occasion  of  the  temporary 
blockade  of  railroad  transit  through  Baltimore,  he  was 
attached  to  the  brig  Perry,  to  convoy  troops  to  Annapolis. 
As  executive  officer,  he  was  attached  to  the  Vandalia,  on 
blockade  duty  off  South  Carolina,  and  was  in  the  Port 
Royal  engagements.  He  was  promoted  lieutenant  com- 
mander July  16,  1862,  and  attached  to  the  Wyandot,  and 
still  later  to  the  Ottawa  off  Charleston.  Near  the  close  of 
the  war  he  was  attached  to  the  school  ship  Savannah, 
for  instruction  of  volunteer  officers,  and  stationed  in  New 
York  harbor.  He  was  also  assigned  to  the  gun-boat  Tioga, 
of  the  gulf  squadron.  He  has  been  for  some  time  attached 
to  the  navy-yard  duty  at  New  York.  His  family  have 
resided  here  since  1865. 


PART  FOURTH. 


OBITUARY 


OBITUAKY, 


IT  is  specially  fitting  that  our  MEMORIAL  should  prove  a 
worthy  monument  to  the  m emery  of  our  dead.  We  owe  it 
ourselves  to  honor  those  who  so  cheerfully  gave  themselves 
for  our  cause.  Let  us,  then,  here  affectionately  enroll  the 
names  of  these,  our  departed,  where  they  shall  be  to  us  a 
perpetual  witness  to  the  self-sacrificing  loyalty  of  those  whom 
we  have  lost.  While  this  brief  necrology  shall  often  'start 
the  tear  from  the  eye  of  many  a  stricken  mourner  who  still 
misses  some  dear  one,  lost,  let  it,  also,  kindle  to  a  holier 
earnestness,  a  love  for  the  great  cause  they  died  to  save. 
May  it  never  cease  to  inspire  in  our  hearts,  too,  the  same 
pure  and  grand  devotion,  which  shall  so  honor  and  hallow 
forever  the  memories  of  these  our  dead. 

So  passed  the  strong,  heroic  soul  away. 

TENNTSON. 
Fallen  are  the  faithful  and  the  pure. 

MRS.  REMANS. 

They  fought  to  give  us  peace,  and  lo ! 
They  gained  a  better  peace  than  ours. 

PIIEBE  CAREY. 

Forget  them  not,  though  now  their  names 
Be  but  a  mournful  sound. 

MRS.  HEMAXS. 


120  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS5    MEMORIAL. 

ABRAHAM  E.  ACKLEY,  Co.  B,  13th  Conn.,  son  of  widow 
Mary  Ackley,  is  reported  in  the  Catalogue  of  Connecticut 
Soldiers  as  having  died,  Aug.  9,  1863. 

FRANCIS  B.  AVERT,  a  recruit  from  Stamford,  Co.  H,  First 
Conn.  Artillery,  though  residing  in  Poundridge.  He  is 
reported  as  having  died,  March  12,  1864. 

JAMES  R.  AYRES,  son  of  Jeremiah  N".  Ayres,  Co.  C,  3d 
Michigan.  He  entered  the  regiment  at  twenty  years  of 
age,  and  was  found  at  his  post  with  his  regiment,  on  the 
march  and  in  action,  down  to  the  day  of  his  fall,  June  17, 
1864,  before  Petersburg.  The  following  from  the  treasurer 
of  the  Michigan  Soldiers'  Relief  Association,  bearing  the 
same  date,  tells  the  story  of  his  death. 

"  Twenty  minutes  ago,  your  son  James  R.  Ayres,  while 
laboring  on  the  breastworks,  about  fifty  feet  from  brigade  head- 
quarters, fell,  shot  through  the  left  breast  by  a  rebel  sharp- 
shooter. He  expired  within  two  minutes,  without  uttering 
a  word.  He  has  been  buried  under  a  locust  on  the  bank  of 
a  small  stream,  forty  rods  north  of  a  road  leading  east  of 
Petersburg,  and  a  mile  or  two  from  that  city.  I  understand 
he  was  a  gallant  soldier  and  much  esteemed  in  his  regiment." 
He  left  a  good  name  and  his  memory  is  held  very  precious 
to  his  friends,  who  are  thus  called  to  mourn  so  early  his  death. 

THADDEUS  L.  BAILEY,  Co.  C,  28th  Conn.,  son  of  John  L. 
Baiiey,  died  of  fever  at  Memphis,  Sept.  16,  1863,  about 
three  weeks  after  his  discharge,  leaving  a  wife  and  one 
daughter. 

NATHANIEL  BARMORE,  jr.,  son  of  Nathaniel,  Co.  B,  28th 
Conn.,  returned  broken  down  by  the  campaign,  and  died 
here  of  chronic  diarrhea.  He  left  a  wife  and  children. 

JOHN  E.  BING,  Co.  D,  6th  Conn.,  was  one  of  the  three 


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sons  of  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Bing  who  were  in  the  service.  He 
was  the  first  of  his  company  to  yield  to  the  hardships  and 
privations  of  the  campaign,  in  South  Carolina.  He  died  of 
fever,  April  8,  1862,  in  the  hopital  at  Hilton  Head,  at  a 
time  when  the  sanitary  provisions  of  the  army  were  insuffi- 
cient to  meet  the  wants  of  the  wounded  and  the  sick. 

JOHN  BOHAN,  a  recruit  for  Co.  I,  10th  Conn.,  who  is  sup- 
posed to  have  been  killed  at  the  Deep  Run  engagement. 
He  was  a  single  man. 

EZRA  B.  BOUTON,  Co.  C,  2d  Artillery  Conn.  Volunteers, 
was  son  of  Stephen  Bouton.  He  was*  killed  at  Cold  Har- 
bor, June  3,  1864,  and  left  a  wife  and  four  children. 

JOHN  E.  BOUTON,  Co.  A,  28th  Conn.,  son  of  Nathaniel  A. 
Bouton.  He  died,  Sept.  29,  1863,  in  Baton  Rouge  hospital, 
from  typhoid  fever,  at  twenty-eight  years  of  age.  His  record 
was  a  good  one,  and  his  death  was  keenly  felt  by  his  com- 
rades, whose  confidence  and  esteem  he  had  won. 

SPENCER  BOU'ION,  Co.  A,  28th  Conn.,  son  of  Joseph 
Bouton.  He  wras  left  in  the  hospital  atBrashear  City,  with 
eighteen  other  sick  soldiers  of  the  regiment,  May  23,  1863, 
as  the  regimen r  started  up  the  river.  He  died,  there,  on  the 
7th  of  the  following  month.  He  was  a  victim,  doubtless, 
to  the  miserable  quarters  which  our  soldiers  found  on  the 
muddy  fiats  of  that  locality.  He  left  a  wife  and  two 
children. 

ANDREW  BOYT>,  Sergt.  Co.  B,  28th  Conn.,  a  native  of  New 
York  City,  was  here,  in  the  firm  of  Loekwood  &  Boyd, 
when  tin-  war  began.  While  in  service  in  the  Mississippi 
Valley,  he  was  attacked  with  chronic  diarrhea,  and  though 
able  to  reach  home,  he  could  not  be  helped.  His  death 
occurred,  Oct.  5,  1863,  at  the  age  of  forty-five.  He  was  an 


122  STAMFOKD    SOLDIERS5    MEMORIAL. 

exemplary  citizen  and  a  good  soldier.  His  funeral  was 
attended  by  his  pastor,  Rev.  E.  Francis,  from  the  Universal- 
ist  church,  and  his  remains  were  interred  in  the  Northfield 
burying  lot.  He  left  a  wife  and  five  children. 

PHINEAS  BROWN,  Co.  H,  28th  Conn.,  son  of  widow  Har- 
rison Brown,  was  living  in  tho  Turn  of  the  River  district  on 
the  opening  of  the  war.  He  came  home  sick  from  the  South, 
and  died,  Sept.  6,  1863,  unmarried. 

JOHN  BROWN,  Co.  G,  29th  Conn.,  was  killed  in  the  action 
near  Kell  House,  Oct.  27,  1864,  while  the  company  was 
working  their  way  through  the  picket  lines  up  to  the 
enemy's  entrenchments.  The  action  continued  from  seven 
A.  M.  until  the  morning  of  the  next  day. 

FRANK  BRYSON,  Co.  D,  6th  Conn.,  was  wounded  severely 
in  the  breast,  May  15,  1864,  near  Bermuda  Hundred,  and 
died  from  the  wounds  at  Point  Lookout,  May  19th.  His 
record  is  that  of  a  good  soldier,  and  when  his  misfortune 
took  him  into  the  hospital,  he  was  found  a  faithful  and  use- 
ful nurse.  It  is  due  that  this  misfortune  be  stated.  In  the 
fall  of  1863,  he  came  home  on  his  furlough  for  a  visit. 
Taken  sick,  he  could  not  return  according  to  his  furlough, 
and  was  reported  a  deserter.  On  his  return  lie  was  tried 
and  acquitted,  but  his  health  not  being  equal  to  the  field,  he 
was  transferred  to  the  hospital,  where  his  help  was  found 
very  serviceable.  He  left  a  wife  and  children  here. 

JOHN  BUTTRY,  Co.  B,  17th  Conn.,  was  one  of  those  taken 
prisoner  at  "Welaka,  Fla.,  May  19,  1864.  He  was  taken  to 
Andersonville,  where  it  is  probable  he  died,  though  no 
reliable  report  of  his  death  has  ever  been  received.  His 
family  have  lived  a  year  or  two  in  Darien. 

SAMUEL   CALDWELL,  Co.  B,  28th  Conn.,  son  of  George  ; 


OBITUARY.  123 

was  taken  with  the  fever  while  on  the  Mississippi  river,  and 
brought  to  Fort  Schuyler,  where  he  died  Aug.  15,  1803. 
His  remains  were  interred  in  the  bnrying  ground  at  the  Turn 
of  the  River. 

MORRIS  CARROLL,  Co.  G,  10th  Conn.,  wounded  at  Drury's 
Bluff,  May  13,  1864.  Both  hands  were  badly  shattered,  and 
he  refused  to  have  them  amputated.  He  died  in  the 
hospital  in  New  Haven,  July  28,  1804,  aged  nineteen. 

JOHN  S.  CLARK,  Corp.  Co.  D,  Oth  Conn.,  son  of  John 
Clark,  and  born  in  New  York  City  in  1844.  The  family 
had  been  living  here  several  years  when  the  war  began,  and 
he  was  one  of  our  earliest  volunteers.  After  serving  out  his 
first  term  honorably,  he  as  cheerfully  re-enlisted,  and  in  the 
thirteenth  battle  in  which  he  was  engaged,  he  was  killed, 
probably  by  a  sharpshooter,  Aug.  10,  1804,  at  Strawberry 
Plains.  His  record  as  a  soldier  was  one  of  our  best ;  and 
the  high  esteem  in  which  he  was  held  was  fully  deserved. 
No  report  was  received  of  him  after  the  action  in  which  lie 
fell.  Thus  died  this  patriot  youth  at  the  early  age  of 
seventeen. 

EDWARD  T.  CLARK,  son  of  Levi  Clark,  Co.  B,  28th  Conn., 
WHS  sent  May  25,  1803,  to  the  hospital  at  Baton  Rouge, 
where  he  died  Aug.  17,  1805. 

<ri:oRGK  "YV.  CLOCK,  Co.  A,  28th  Conn.,  died  at  the  Baton 
Rouge,  La.,  Hospital,  July  2,  1803. 

LKWIS  A.  COOK.  Co.  K,  7th  C<mn.,  proved  himself  to  be  a 
good  soldier.  In  the  severe  fighting  at  Deep  Run,  Va., 
Ana1.  10,  "1804.  lie  \\  as  especially  commended  by  his  captain, 
John  Thompson,  then  commanding  the  regiment.  Again  in 
the  difficult  advance  of  Oct.  27th  of  the  same  year,  led  by 
( reneral  Butler,  on  the  Darbytown  road,  his  bravery  and 


124  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS'    MEMORIAL. 

good  judgment   were   conspicuous,    and   for  these   he  was 
urgently  recommended  by  Butler  for  promotion. 

ANDREW  CRISSY,  Co.  B,  28th  Conn.,  died  at  Brashear  City 
Hospital,  after  having  been  honorably  discharged  with  his 
regiment,  Aug.  26,  1863. 

EDWIN  K.  DAILY,  Co.  G,  67th  1ST.  Y.  Vols.,  was  a  native  of 
Michigan,  and  step  son  of  John  Clark,  Esq.,  of  Stamford. 
He  first  volunteered  with  the  men  who  afterwards  consti- 
tuted Co.  D,  6th  Conn.,  but  not  willing  to  wait  for  the  regi- 
mental organization,  he  enlisted  as  above.  After  brave  ser- 
vice in  nineteen  engagements,  he  fell  in  his  twentieth,  in  the 
battle  of  the  Wilderness,  May  6,  1864,  twenty-three  years  of 
age.  He  was  struck  by  the  ball  of  a  sharpshooter,  as  he 
stood  about  about  six  yards  in  advance  of  his  comrades,  he 
cheering  them  on  to  the  fight.  His  honorable  record  is,  "  he 
fell  a  true  Christian  patriot." 

JOHN  W.  DASKAM,  son  of  Mrs.  Betsy  Daskam,  went  out 
with  the  6th  Conn.,  as  cook,  and  was  taken  with  the  fever  in 
Beaufort,  N.  C.,  where  he  died  early  in  October,  1862,  aged 
thirty  years.  He  had  made  himself  useful  to  the  regiment, 
and  his  death  was  felt  to  be  a  great  loss  to  them. 

CHARLES  DURAND,  Co.  B,  28th  Conn.,  had  been  residing 
in  Stamford  for  a  few  years,  and  when  he  volunteered  was 
engaged  as  keeper  of  the  Cornucopia  Restaurant.  He  was 
a  resolute  and  courageous  soldier  and  officer.  One  of  the 
detail  for  the  assault  on  Port  Hudson,  of  June  14,  1864,  he 
fell  almost  immediately  on  the  sounding  of  the  charge,  while 
urging  on  his  men.  His  remains  were  recovered  under  a 
flag  of  truce,  and  buried  near  the  picket  fence. 

WILLIAM  F  ARNOLD,  Co.  B,  17th  Conn.,  son  of  William,  of 
Greenwich;  was  taken  prisoner  at  Welaka,  May  19,  1864, 
and  confined  in  Anderson ville.  On  his  exchange  he  was  so 


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completely  reduced  by  the  treatment,  to  which,  as  a  Union 
soldier,  he  had  been  subjected,  that  he  did  not  reach  home. 
At  Wilmington,  N.  C.,  March  19,  1865,  death  released  him 
from  what  could  only  have  been  a  life  of  lingering  suffering  for 
him.  His  family  were  awaiting  his  arrival  with  affectionate 
longings,  only  to  be  thrice  disappointed.  Within  five  weeks 
of  his  death,  his  two  only  children  died  here,  one  of  five,  and 
the  other  of  three  years  of  age,  leaving  the  wife  alone,  thus 
widowed  and  childless.  He  was  twenty-five  years  old. 

GEORGE  D.  FEEKS,  Co.  B,  17th  Conn.,  son  of  John  and  Jane 
Feeks.  After  being  taken  a  prisoner  at  Welaka,  Florida, 
he  was  sent  from  one  southern  prison  to  another,  until  at 
Florence  he  contracted  the  disease  of  which  lie  died  May 
1865,  at  the  l^avy  Hospital,  Annapolis,  Md.  He  left  a  wife 
and  one  child.  The  child  is  now  in  Fitch's  Soldiers'  Home. 

WILLIAM  I.  FERRIS,  Co.  B,  13th  Conn.,  died  May  9,  1868, 
of  fever,  in  hospital  at  the  South. 

MICHAEL  Fox,  Co.  B,  17th  Conn.;  was  shot  in  the  first 
charge  made  upon  his  company  at  Gettysburg,  July  1,  1863. 
He  left  a  wife  and  three  children  who  are  still  living  here. 

PATRICK  Fox,  Co,  D,  6th  Conn.,  went  into  the  engagement 
near  Bermuda  Hundred,  June  17,  1864-.  He  was  taken 
prisoner,  and  is  reported  as  dying,  Xov.  6,  1864,  leaving  a 
family. 

DAXIEL  FREEMAN,  Co.  D,  6th  Conn.,  died  July  12,  1862, 
on  Dawfuskie  Island,  after  a  short  sickness  of  one  week. 

PETER  FRYERMUTII,  Co.  B,  28th  Conn.,  is  reported  on  the 
company  record  by  the  Adjutant-General  of  the  State,  as 
discharged  for  disability,  Jan.  19,  1863.  I  find  no  record  of 
his  death,  which  occurred  in  Stamvich,  but  his  daughter 
Louisa  is  returned  by  the  selectmen,  as  entitled  to  the  benefit 


126  STAMFORD    SOLDI KEs'    MEMORIAL. 

of  the  "  Act  for  the  relief  of  soldiers'  children,"  in  September, 
1866. 

PHILO  C.  FULLER,  son  of  S.  B.  Fuller,  of  New  York  City  ; 
enlisted  into  the  20th  111.  Infantry  ;  taken  prisoner  at  Pitts- 
burg  Landing  and  escaped.  While  on  a  train  on  the  Colum- 
bus and  Memphis  railroad,  he  fell  from  the  car  and  was  killed, 
Sept.  21,  1868,  in  the  23d  year  of  his  age.  His  mother  is  now 
Mrs.  Frederick  Bates,  of  Stamford . 

THOMAS  R.  GRAHAM,  Co.  B,  17th  Conn.,  had  been  an 
apprentice  to  the  printing  business  here,  with  Lieut.  E.  Hoyt. 
On  Mr.  Hoyt's  enlistment,  he  returned  from  the  city,  where 
he  was  at  work,  and  enlisted.  He  was  killed  in  the  engage- 
ment at  Chancellorsville,  May  2,  1863. 

WILLIAM  GILLESPIE  was  taken  prisoner  at  Gettysburg,  and 
died  in  the  rebel  prison  of  Belle  Isle,  leaving  a  family  here. 

BENJAMIN  L.  GREAVES,  a  native  of  Windham,  Conn.,,  was 
living  in  the  family  of  the  author  when  the  war  opened, 
Enlisting  as  private  into  Co.  G,  10th  Conn.,  he  soon  showed 
capacity  for  command,  and  was  rapidly  promoted  to  a  cap- 
taincy. He  was  in  thorough  sympathy  with  the  aim  of  the 
Avar,  and  in  several  engagements  displayed  the  best  qualities 
of  a  good  captain.  The  summer  of  1863  was  especially  try- 
ing to  his  health,  and  he  was  obliged  to  go  into  hospital  on 
the  first  of  October.  For  some  thirty  days,  in  the  vicinity  of 
Petersburg,  Ya.,  his  company  had  been  under  fire,  often,  both 
day  and  night,  and  the  exposure  and  strain  proved  too  much 
for  his  nerves.  He  resigned,  and  was  honorably  discharged 
October  25,  1863. 

Returning  to  New  York  City,  where  he  had  spent  a  large 
portion  of  his  earlier  life,  he  died  there  of  congestion  of  the 
brain,  August  10,  1868,  leaving  a  wife  to  whom  he  had  been 
in ;i m'ed  but  a  few  months.  His  remains  were  taken  to  Wind- 


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ham,  and  deposited  beside  those  of  his  father,  in  the  beautiful 
cemetery  of  his  native  town. 

The  following  testimony  from  Rev.  H.  C.  Trumbull,  chap- 
lain of  the  Tenth,  is  worthy  a  place  in  our  record  of  the  cap- 
tain's service  :  "  Captain  Greaves  will  ever  be  remembered 
by  his  army  comrades,  as  a  brave  soldier,  possessing  fine 
qualities  of  mind,  and  many  attractive  traits  of  personal 
character.  The  fact  that  he  was  in  command  of  the  company, 
in  the  ranks  of  which  he  went  out  from  Stamford,  when 
hardly  a  year  of  his  enlistment  had  expired,  and  that,  too,  in 
a  regiment  comprising  such  material  as  the  Tenth,  with  its 
bright  record  for  discipline,  hard  fighting  and  thorough  effi- 
ciency evidenced  his  superiority  in  much  that  went  to  make 
a  first-class  soldier/' 

General  J.  L.  Otis,  in  referring  to  captain  Greaves'  effi- 
ciency, while  in  command  of  a  skirmish  line  at  Deep  Run, 
Va.,  Aug.  16,  LS64-,  adds  this  estimate  of  his  military  char- 
acter. "  His  conduct  was  always  commendable  in  action. 
He  was  one  of  the  kind  not  likely  to  get  all  the  credit  due 

*j  O 

to  him.  He  never  got  excited  under  fire,  and  consequently 
did  not  make  so  much  display  to  attract  attention  as  others 
less  deserving  might.  I  always  considered  coolness  and 
self-possession  in  action  the  most  valuable  characteristics  an 
officer  could  possess,  and  captain  Greaves  had  these  in  a 
remarkable  degree." 

At  the  annual  re-union  of  the  officers  of  the  Tenth,  Sept. 
23,  1868,  they  thus  testify  to  the  military  character  of  the 
captain  : 

"  Captain  Greaves,  enlisting  at  the  organization  of  the 
regiment,  was  soon  promoted  from  the  ranks  for  his  gal- 
lantry and  his  faithfulness  in  duty.  Step  by  step  he  won  the 
command  of  a  company,  and  thenceforward  in  prolonged 
and  arduous  army  service,  he  ever  bore  himself  as  a  brave, 


128  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS5    MEMORIAL. 

prompt  and  efficient  soldier.  Never  flinching  in  the  hour 
of  danger,  never  failing  in  the  performance  of  any  task  as- 
signed him,  he  won  the  confidence  of  his  commanders,  and 
the  respect  of  those  whom  he  commanded.  His  record  of 
patriotic  services  is  one  in  which  those  who  love  him  may 
have  just  pride,  and  his  early  death  is  sincerely  lamented  by 
many  who  knew  his  capabilities  of  usefulness." 

GEORGE  "W.  HARTSON,  Co.  B,  28th  Conn.,  was  wounded  at 
Port  Hudson,  July  6,  1868,  by  a  cap  blown  from  one  of  our 
shells.  He  died  from  the  wound  and  was  buried  at  Port 
Hudson,  August  1, 1863,  leaving  a  wife  and  one  daughter. 

HORACE  P.  HOBBY  Co.  D,  6th  Conn.,  an  excellent  soldier 
and  officer,  one  of  the  six  sons  of  HARVEY  HOBBY,  of  Stamford, 
who  volunteered  for  the  service,  was  captured  near  Ber- 
muda Hundred,  June  17,  1864,  and  with  the  others  of  his 
company  captured  with  him,  was  taken  to  Richmond,  and 
began  his  experience  of  prison  life  in  Libby.  He  was  re- 
moved to  Anderson  ville,  and  successively  endured  the  priva- 
tions of  Millen,  Savannah,  Charleston,  and  Florence,  until 
the  Thanksgiving  morning  of  November,  1864,  when  he  was 
taken  up  by  two  attendants  and  borne  out  from  his  prison  to 
be  sent  to  Annapolis  for  exchange — "  the  happiest  thanks- 
giving," he  said  to  his  mother,  on  reaching  home,  December 
29th,  •'  that  I  ever  knew."  At  home  he  lingered  on  in  great 
suffering  and  weakness  for  nearly  two  years,  yet  never  able 
to  rally  after  the  horrible  sufferings  of  those  wasting  months, 
— more  heroic  even  than  on  the  battle  field,  where  he  had 
never  flinched,  until,  a  patient  and  brave  martyr,  he  went 
to  his  rest  and  triumph,  November  17,  1866,  aged  twenty- 
one  years. 

WILLIAM  HOBBY,  an  older  brother  of  Horace  P.,  above, 
Co.  F,  3d  Conn.,  after  returning  from  his  three  months  cam- 


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paign,  returned  to  his  business  in  town,  and  subsequently 
removed  to  Darien.  On  the  6th  of  March,  1868,  as  lie 
was  walking  on  the  track  of  the  railroad,  a  short  distance 
from  his  house,  he  was  suddenly  struck  and  killed  by  an 
engine.  He  left  a  wife  and  three  children. 

JOSEPH  HOLMES,   Co.  B,  29th  Conn,  died  May  30,  1864. 

ANDREW  HOYX,  son  of  Isaac  Hoyt,  of  Stamford,  Co.  B, 
28th  Conn.,  after  the  trying  summer  of  1863,  on  the  Miss- 
issippi, died  soon  after  his  regiment  started  homewards.  His 
remains  were  interred  on  the  Arkansas  shore,  just  before 
sunset,  Aug.  10,  1863. 

EMMET  M.  HOYT,  3d  Md.,  died  probably  at  Little  Wash- 
ington, Va.  He  was  an  orphan  at  the  opening  of  the  war, 
son  of  Emmet,  and  grandson  of  Dea.  Calvin  Hoyt,  with 
whom  he  was  living.  He  was  an  amiable  and  excellent 
young  man,  with  fine  gifts  of  mind  as  well  as  heart. 

Jonx  E.  HOYT,  son  of  John,  of  Norwalk,  Co.  A,  28th 
Conn,  died  after  four  weeks  sickness  at  Pensacola,  Fla,, 
Sunday,  Feb  22,  1863.  His  remains  were  buried  in  the  old 
Spanish  cemetery  in  the  center  of  Pensacola,  with  a  soldier's 
head  board  to  mark  the  grave.  After  the  war  they  were 
disinterred  and  removed  to  the  family  lot  in  Norwalk. 

SAMUEL  B.  HOYT,  son  of  Benjamin  Hoyt,  Co.  G,  l()th 
Conn.,  after  a  brief  service  he  found  his  lungs  diseased  and 
was  discharged  Oct.  21,  1861.  He  reached  home  and  died 
Nov.  2d,  of  quick  consumption,  leaving  a  wife  and  four 
children. 

SETH  II.  HOYT,  son  of  Ezra  Hoyt,  Co.  B,  28th  Conn.,  was 
wounded  at  Port  Hudson,  June  14,  1803,  and  sent  to  the 
Baton  liouge  Hospital  on  the  20th.  He  left  a  wife  and  twro 

children. 
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130  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS5    MEMORIAL. 

HENRY  W.  HOYT,  son  of  John  M.  Hoyt,  Co.  D.,  6th  Conn., 
for  more  than  a  year  served  as  a  faithful  soldier.  In  the 
sharp  engagement  at  Pocotaligo,  Oct.  22,  1862,  he  was 
wounded  by  a  grape  shot  which  shattered  his  ankle  badly. 
He  had  been  one  of  the  foremost  in  the  fight,  cheerful, 
courageous,  and  more  thoughtful  for  others  than  himself. 
On  receiving  the  wound  which  was  to  prove  mortal,  he  was 
taken  on  to  a  litter  and  carried  back  from  the  front. 
Though  in  intense  agony,  as  he  passed  his  company  with 
their  faces  still  set  against  the  enemy,  his  zeal  for  the  cause 
for  which  he  had  been  struck  down  overcame  his  agony, 
and  with  a  hero's  benediction  in  his  looks  of  mortal  paleness 
lie  left  with  them,  also,  the  benediction  of  his  prayer,  "  God  be 
with  you,  boys."  His  limb  was  taken  off,  though  too  late  to 
save  his  life.  He  was  taken  to  Hilton  Head.  After  linger- 
ing in  great  pain  he  died  October  30th,  and  was  buried  in 
the  lot  selected  for  the  soldiers'  cemetery. 

THOMAS  S.  INGERSOL,  son  of  Alexander  and  Caroline  In- 
gersol,  was  born  in  Stamford,  Dec.  22,  1834.  He  entered 
the  service  of  the  Government  in  the  war  from  a  sense  of 
duty,  and  'never  shrank  from  any  hardship  or  exposure  to 
which  it  called,  until  his  health  gave  way  and  he  was 
obliged  to  yield.  At  Roanoke  he  took  a  severe  cold  which 
settled  upon  his  lungs  from  which  he  never  recovered.  He 
was  greatly  benefitted  by  the  season  spent  in  Florida  with 
his  company,  and  on  returning  Northward  again  into  active 
service,  unable  to  enter  the  ranks,  he  took  the  duty  of 
teamster,  in  which  service  he  remained  to  the  close  of  the 
war.  On  returning  home  he  found  himself  utterly  broken 
down.  His  voice  failed,  and  the  disease  which  had  been 
fastening  itself  on  his  lungs,  at  length  triumphed.  After  a 
lingering  illness,  this  exemplary  citizen  and  good  soldier 
made  the  last  sacrifice  he  could  make  for  his  country,  in  the 


OBITUARY.  131 

gift  of  his  own  life.  He  died  at  the  homestead  of  the  family, 
Oct.  24,  1866,  and  his  remains  lie  in  the  family  burying 
ground  in  the  neighborhood  of  his  home. 

CIIAELES  JENNINGS,  Co.  B,  28th  Conn.,  was  in  hospital  at 
Memphis,  from  Aug.  13,  1863,  and  died  leaving  a  wife  and 
a  daughter  who  soon  died.  His  widow  re-married  and  now 
lives  in  Norwalk. 

EDWIN  B.  JESSUP,  Co.  B,  ITth  Conn.,  was  taken  with  the 
typhoid  fever  at  Brooks'  Station,  Va.,  of  which  he  died, 
March  2,  1863.  His  funeral  was  attended  in  Stamford, 
March  21st,  by  Rev.  Mr.  Francis,  and  his  remains  interred 
in  the  Northfield  burying  lot. 

BENJAMIN  JONES,  Co.  H,  13th  Conn.,  enlisted,  Jan.  8. 
1862,  and  died,  April  8,  1862. 

JOSEPH  JONES,  Co.  D,  6th  Conn.,  was  slightly  injured  on 
Morris  Island,  and  was  mortally  wounded  before  Petersburg 
where  he  died,  June  9,  1864.  He  was  a  good  soldier. 

IRA  D.  JONES,  Co.  B,  6th  Conn.,  was  wounded  at  Fort 
Wagner,  July  18,  1863,  by  a  shot  which  entering  the  knee 
as  it  was  bent,  passed  up  into  the  femur,  following  the 
center  of  the  bone  about  five  inches,  before  its  force  was 
spent.  Tt  was  found  only  after  amputation  of  the  limb. 
Pie  lingered  in  gr(  at  pain  until  his  death.  July  29th.  His 
remains  in  the  Fall  following  were  brought  to  Stamford  and 
deposited  in  the  family  lot  at  High  Ridge.  His  father, 
Thaddeus  Jones,  has  for  several  yeais  lived  in  the  Borough. 

TIIEKON  I?.  JrNE,  Co.  G,  6th  Conn.,  son  of  Win.  and  Eliza 
June,  entering  the  service  near  the  close  of  the  war  com- 
mended himself  by  his  fidelity  and  was  appointed  corporal, 
Dec.  19.  1864,  even  in  a  veteran  corps.  On  Feb.  29,  1865, 


132  8TAMFOKD    SOLDIERS'    MEMORIAL. 

after  chasing  a  rebel  force  through  Wilmington,  N.  C.,  out 
to  the  N.  E.  Ferry,  while  at  his  evening  meal,  he  was 
wounded  by  a  shot  from  a  sharpshooter.  He  was  taken  to 
the  hospital  in  Baltimore,  where  he  died,  March  20,  1865, 
in  the  18th  year  of  his  age. 

FRANCIS  R.  LEEDS,  Co.  A,  10th  Conn.  See  Stamford 
History,  p.  401. 

When  his  company  left,  early  in  Sept.,  1862,  to  enter  the 
Department  of  the  Gulf,  under  Gen.  Banks,  Mr.  Leeds  was 
suffering  from  a  typhoid  fever,  contracted  during  a  previous 
visit  to  the  South  and  West.  As  soon  as  he  felt  that  his 
strength  would  bear  it,  he  left  to  join  his  company.  He 
reached  them  at  Pensacola,  Fla.,  on  the  1st  of  Feb.,  1863  ; 
and  was  soon  struck  down  with  a  sudden  and  fatal  attack 
of  dysentery.  His  death  occurred,  Feb.  17,  1863.  His 
remains  were  forwarded  to  Stamford,  where  they  were  in- 
terred in  the  new  Woodland  Cemetery.  His  funeral  was 
attended  from  St.  John's  church,  on  Sunday,  March  9th, 
when  the  sermon  was  preached  by  the  Rector,  Rev.  Walter 
Mitchell.  His  testimony  to  the  noble  character  of  captain 
Leeds  is  full  and  explicit. 

"  When  the  young  soldier  went  forth  from  us,  it  was  in 
the  full  knowledge  that  he  had  taken  his  life  in  his  hands, 
that  he  might  be  called  upon  at  any  moment  to  render  it 
up.  So  far  as  it  is  permitted  us  to  judge  of  human  acts,  it 
was  not  for  himself  that  he  went,  it  was  no  selfish  ambition, 
but  the  holy  conviction  of  duty  under  which  he  moved. 
And  what  more  especially  led  him  to  the  place  so  fatal  to 
him,  was  his  sense  of  responsibility  to  those  who  had  trusted 
themselves  to  his  guidance.  Death,  before  failure  of  duty, 
was  his  choice.  Others  before  self,  responsibility  before 
enjoyment,  was  the  principle  of  his  life." 


OBITUARY.  133 

Similar  to  this  testimony  was  that  of  the  Stamford  Advo- 
cate, in  its  editorial  notice  of  the  funeral. 

"  It  is  long  since  this  community  has  been  visited  by  a 
loss  so  widely  mourned.  There  was  first  to  those  entirely 
strangers  to  him  the  natural  feeling  of  sorrow  for  one  cut 
off  in  maintaining  the  great  and  holy  cause  of  restoring  the 
violated  authority  of  the  law.  And  when  those  came  to 
learn  from  every  lip,  how  gallant,  how  well-beloved  and 
worthy  of  his  post  was  the  young  commander,  it  would  be 
with  deepest  regret  that  such  an  one  should  be  taken  when 
our  country  has  so  pressing  a  use  for  all  her  best  and  bravest. 

"  But  the  sympathy  of  strangers  was  nothing  to  the  sor- 
row which  has  touched  so  very  nearly  the  hearts  of  his  many 
friends.  More  than  any  young  man  of  his  age  and  stand- 
ing, captain  Leeds  had  endeared  himself  to  all  classes  of  our 
citizens.  In  his  business  life  as  cashier  of  the  Stamford 
Bank,  his  rare  courtesy,  his  manliness,  his  tried  integrity 
had  won  for  him  love  and  respect  such  as  any  one  might 
court." 

CETAKLES  W.  LITCIIFIKLD,  Co.  A,  28th  Conn.  With  con- 
siderable musical  talent,  he  was  a  source  of  much  entertain- 
ment for  his  comrades.  After  the  war,  lie  became  partially 
deranged  and  died  in  Boston,  Mass. 

ANDREW  J.  LOCKWOOD,  Co.  A,  28th  Conn.,  son  of  Sher- 
man Lockwood,  died  from  the  fever  of  the  locality,  at 
Memphis,  on  the  Mississippi,  Sept.  19, 18(53,  leaving  a  family 
to  mourn  his  untimely  loss. 

JAMES  L.  LOCKWOOD,  brother  of  the  above,  Co.  D,  6th 
Conn.,  saw  much  hard  lighting,  and  incurred  several  serious 
risks.  While  on  Morris  Island,  in  one  of  the  sharp  engage- 
ments before  Wagner,  the  plate  of  his  belt  was  bent  up,  and 
he  was  sent  rolling  down  a^  steep  bank,  without  serious 


134  STAMFORD   SOLDIERS5    MEMORIAL. 

harm.  In  that  engagement,  near  Bermuda  Hundred,  when 
his  captain  and  so  many  of  his  comrades  were  captured  he, 
also,  was  taken  prisoner,  and  sent  South.  Death  came  to 
his  relief  at  Andersonville,  one  of  his  comrades,  Geo.  E. 
Searles,  being  with  him  when  he  died. 

SHERMAN  D.  LOCKWOOD,  brother  of  the  above,  making 
three  sons  of  Sherman  Lockwood,  who  volunteered  for  the 
service,  enlisted  with  his  brother  Andrew  into  Co.  A,  28th 
Conn.  Falling  a  prey  to  the  fever  of  the  Mississippi  Valley, 
he  was  left  at  the  hospital  at  Memphis,  Aug.  13th,  and  died 
there,  Sept.  9,  1863. 

JOSEPH  L.  LOCKWOOD,  141st  Penn.  Infantry,  a  native  of 
the  town  and  son  of  the  late  Captain  Edmund  Lockwood,  of 
Leroyville,  Penn.  His  death  occurred  at  Falmouth,  Va., 
April  3,  1863,  at  twenty-four  years  of  age.  He  is  remem- 
bered here  as  an  intelligent  and  sprightly  youth  and  a 
worthy  young  man.  His  colonel  paid  him  this  high  tribute  : 
"  His  death  is  a  most  serious  loss  to  his  company  and  regi- 
ment. He  was  a  most  courteous  gentleman  and  extremely 
active  and  efficient  in  the  performance  of  his  duty." 

BANKS  LOUNSBURY,  Co.  I,  2d  Heavy  Artillery,  died  Feb. 
23,  1864,  as  the  "  Catalogue  of  the  Connecticut  Volunteer 
Force"  testifies.  He  lived  in  Banksville,  just  off  the  extreme 
north-west  corner  of  the  town. 

WILLIAM  LOWA,  Co.  D,  6th  Conn.,  was  one  of  our  first  to 
fall  in  the  desperate  assault  on  Fort  Wagner,  July  18,  1863. 
He  left  a  wife  and  children  here.  One  of  the  children  has 
been  provided  for  at  Fitch's  Home  in  Darien. 

HENRY  LOWER,  Co.  A,  28th  Conn.,  one  of  the  three  sons 
of  Joseph  Lower,  who  volunteered.  He  was  sick  in  hospital 


OBITUARY.  135 

at  Baton  Rouge,  and~is~reported  in  the  "  Catalogue  of  the 
Connecticut  Volunteer  Force,''  as  honorably  discharged, 
Aug.  28,  1863.  He  was  taken  to  New  Orleans  and  put  on 
board  a  transport  with  other  invalid  soldiers  to  be  taken 
home,  and  has  not  since  been  heard  from. 

MURRAY  MACREA,  Co.  B,  17th  Conn.,  a  ward  of  Thomas 
S.  Hall,  entered  earnestly  into  the  service  and  had  a  good 
record.  With  so  many  others  of  his  company  he  was  cap- 
tured, May  19,  1864,  and  sent  to  Andersonville.  On  the 
approach  of  Sherman  he  was  sent  to  Florence  where  he 
perished,  a  martyr  to  the  Union  cause,  Jan.  1,  1865,  but  not 
before  he  had  received  a  medal  for  meritorious  service  in  the 
field. 

HUGH  MAIIAN,  Co.  B,  17th  Conn.,  was  killed  on  the 
sharply  contested  field  of  Chancellorsville,  May  2,  1863, 
leaving  here  a  family. 

JOHN  II.  MCDONALD,  brother  of  Mrs.  II.  B.  Lum,  enlisted 
in  the  82d  N.  Y.  Volunteers  for  three  months.  He  then 
re-enlisted  for  three  years  and  was  promoted  orderly  ser- 
geant. He  was  wounded  at  Fair  Oaks,  May  31,  1862,  and 
promoted  1st  lieutenant  for  gallant  service.  lie  led  his 
company  in  the  fearful  conflict  of  Gettysburg,  arid  on  the 
third  day  of  the  fighting,  July  3,  1S63,  he  fell  on  the  battle 
field.  His  remains  were  afterwards  brought  to  Stamford, 
and  now  lie  in  the  Woodland  Cemetery  here.  His  brother 
Oliver  was  also  in  the  service  for  more  than  three  years,  in 
one  of  the  Pennsylvania  regiments. 

GEOKGE  A.  MEAD,  sergeant,  Co.  A,  28th  Conn.,  had  stood 
the  nine  months  campaign,  and  returned  to  his  family  hoping 
soon  to  recruit  his  well  nigh  exhausted  strength.  Within  a 
few  days  he  was  taken  down  with  a  malignant  fever,  and 


136  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS5    MEMORIAL. 

after  a  week's  sickness,  died,  Sept.  6,  1863.  He  left  a  wife 
and  a  little  daughter  who  did  not  long  survive  her  father. 
His  funeral  was  attended  at  St.  John's  by  Rev.  Mr.  Mitchell 
and  this  son  and  excellent  soldier  of  the  town  now  lies 
beneath  a  monument  placed  over  him  by  captain  Wm. 
Skiddy. 

HIBBARD  MEAD,  Co.  H,  28th  Conn.,  son  of  Reuben,  died 
on  the  way  home,  at  half  past  nine  o'clock,  A.  M.,  Aug.  13, 
1863,  instead  of  the  10th,  as  the  Adjutant's  Catalogue 
reports  it,  and  was  buried  the  same  day  at  Memphis. 

CHAS.  W.  MILLER,  a  native  of  the  town  and  son  of  Seth  Mil- 
ler. Though  strongly  attached  to  home,  on  the  earnest  call  of 
the  Government  he  enlisted  into  Co.  B,  28th  Conn.  When  the 
regiment  left  for  home,  after  its  nine  months  service,  he  was 
too  feeble  to  accompany  them,  and  he  continued  to  decline 
until  his  death,  Sept.  3,  1863,  at  Mound  City.  His  remains 
were  taken  to  Stamford,  where  they  were  interred,  Sept.  6, 
1863,  from  the  Baptist  church,  of  which  lie  was  a  member. 
His  memorial  tablet  is  now  on  the  walls  of  the  Baptist 
Sunday  School  room,  and  his  remains  in  the  burying  lot  on 
Korthfield  street.  He  left  a  wife  and  four  children  to  mourn 
his  death,  thus  in  the  prime  of  his  manhood.  Their  chief 
comfort  was  that  he  had  nobly  earned  the  title  of  Christian 
hero,  and  had  gone  to  his  triumph. 

JOHN  A.  MILES,  Co.  D,  6th  Conn.  He  was  missed  after 
the  fighting  of  July  19,  1863,  on  Morris  Island  ;  and  was 
afterwards  reported  in  Andersonville  ;  where  he  is  supposed 
to  have  perished.  He  left  a  wife  and  two  children.  The 
children  were  in  Fitch's  Home  in  Darien,  where  the 
daughter  died,  Feb.  26,  1868. 

WM.  H.  MONROE,  Co.  H,  1st  Conn.  Artillery,  is  reported 
as  having  died,  May.  16,  1864. 


OBITUARY.  137 

THOMAS  W.  MOLLET,  Co.  A,  28th  Conn.,  son  of  John 
Mollet,  of  Stamford,  and  a  young  man  of  much  promise. 
He  was  wounded  at  Port  Hudson,  and  died  in  the  Baton 
Rouge  hopital,  July  15,  1863. 

WILLIAM  A.  MOREHOUSE,  Co.  D,  6th  Conn.,  was  a  son  of 
Mrs.  John  Bing  by  a  former  husband.  He  was  killed  at  the 
assault  on  Fort  Wagner,  July  18,  1863. 

CHARLES  E.  MORRELL,  Co.  B,  17th  Conn.,  was  son  of 
Charles  Morrell.  He  died  at  Beaufort,  N.  C.,  Oct.  3,  1863, 
in  the  thirty-first  year  of  his  age,  leaving  a  wife  and  three 
children.  The  children  have  been  provided  for,  a  portion  of 
the  time  since  his  death  at  Fitch's  Home  in  Darien. 

THEODORE  NICHOLS,  6th  N.  Y.  Cavalry,  was  son  of  Epen- 
etus  W.  Nichols,  and  one  of  the  four  brothers  furnished  by 
that  family  for  the  war.  He  was  shot  by  a  sharpshooter, 
while  pursuing  with  his  regiment  the  fugitive  Early  up  the 
Shenandoah. 

SAMUEL  S.  OSBORN,  Co.  II,  17th  Conn.,  son  of  Samuel. 
After  re-enlisting  in  the  2d  Heavy  Artillery,  he  was  wounded 
at  the  severe  fighting  of  Cold  Harbor,  June  1,  1864.  He 
was  sent  to  Washington,  I).  C.,  and  thence  to  McDougal 
hospital,  Fort  Schuyler,  N.  Y.  When  too  late  to  save  him, 
his  right  leg  was  amputated,  after  which  he  suddenly  sank, 
and  died  June  30,  1864.  His  funeral  was  attended  by  Rev. 
L.  W.  Bacon  at  the  Congregational  church,  July  3d,  and 
his  remains  lie  in  the  family  lot  in  Woodland  Cemetery. 
He  left  no  family,  his  wife  having  died  before  his  re-enlist- 
ment. He  died  at  forty-five  years  of  age,  leaving  the  record 
of  a  good  soldier.  His  last  last  words  were  those  of  a  joy- 
ful christian,  ifc  I  am  almost  home." 

DAVID   C.   PALMER,  Co.   A,  6th  Conn.,  son  of  James  11. 
R 


138  STAMFORD   SOLDIERS5    MEMORIAL. 

Palmer,  of  North  Salem,  N.  Y.  On  the  breaking  out  of  the 
war  he  had  been  living  here  about  ten  years.  At  Fort 
Wagner  he  was  taken  prisoner,  and  held  as  such  in  the 
prison  at  Columbia  and  Belle  Isle.  After  being  paroled  he 
was  taken  on  to  Baltimore,  where,  being  utterly  exhausted, 
he  died  in  the  hospital,  April  27,  1864.  His  remains  were 
taken  to  Norwalk,  the  former  residence  of  his  wife,  and 
interred  in  the  family  lot.  His  widow  is  still  living  in 
Stamford. 

REUBEN  PEATT,  Co.  G,  10th  Conn.,  son  of  Reuben.  After 
re-enlisting  as  veteran,  he  was  sent  to  the  hospital  at  Fortress 
Monroe,  where  he  died. 

WILLIAM  L.  PEATT,  brother  of  Reuben,  Co.  D,  6th  Conn. 
After  his  re-enlistment  as  veteran,  he  was  shot  through  the 
body,  May  16,  1864,  at  Bermuda  Hundred,  and  never  more 
heard  from.  The  adjutant's  report  for  1865,  gives  his  name 
as  Pratt. 

THEODORE  H.  PECK,  son  of  Frederick  Peck,  Co.  A,  28th 
Conn.  During  the  campaign  on  the  Mississippi  river,  he 
was  taken  down  with  fever.  He  was  able  to  reach  home, 
where  he  gradually  declined  until  his  death,  Nov.  4,  1863, 
aged  twenty-seven  years.  His  funeral  was  attended  from 
the  Congregational  church,  of  whose  choir  he  had  been  a 
member.  He  had  the  rare  gift  of  a  heavy  musical  bass 
voice,  and  he  used  it  often  with  happiest  effects  to  relieve 
the  tedium  of  camp  life.  It  woke  many  a  remembrance 
among  his  comrades  of  the  dear  old  songs  they  had  been 
wont  to  hear  at  home. 

GABRIEL  W.  PLATT,  son  of  John  Platt,  Co.  A,  28th  Conn. 
From  N.  W.  Hoyt's  Diary  I  learn  that  he  was  sent  to  the 
hospital  at  Port  Hudson,  Jan.  15,  1863,  with  dysentery,  and 
died  there  on  the  28th.  His  remains  were  interred  in  a 


OBITUARY.  139 

ravine  in  the  vicinity  beneath   "  the  tall  magnolia  trees  of 
Port  Hudson."     He  left  a  family  of  three  children. 

PATSY  PICKER,  son  of  Michael,  Co.  D,  6th  Conn.,  died  of 
fever,  Oct.  5,  1863,  at  Hilton  Head,  where  he  was  buried. 
He  was  only  about  seventeen  years  of  age. 

JOSEPH  WILLAED  POTTS,  Co.  B,  17th  Conn.,  was  killed  at 
Chancellorsville,  May  2,  1863. 

JAMES  A.  POTTS,  Co.  D,  6th  Conn.,  taken  prisoner  near 
Bermuda  Hundred,  and  sent  South  with  so  many  of  his 
comrades  to  the  severe  doom  of  a  rebel  prison  life.  After 
his  release,  he  was  sent  to  Hilton  Head  where  his  exhausted 
strength  gave  out.  and  death  came  to  his  relief."; 

ALBERT  M.  POWELL,  a  native  of  Maryland  ;  graduated  at 
the  U.  S.  Military  Academy  at  "West  Point  in  1860,  and 
assigned  to  Co.  H,  31st  U.  S.  Inf.  At  the  opening  of  the  war 
he  was  promoted  1st  Lieut,  in  the  13th  IT.  S.  Inf.,  and  Capt. 
Oct.  24,  1861.  He  was  transferred  to  the  command  of  a 
battery  in  the  1st  Missouri  Volunteer  artillery,  and  for  meri- 
torious service  promoted  lieutenant-colonel  arid  chief  of 
artillery  in  the  17th  Army  Corps.  Here  he  "distinguished 
himself  in  several  of  the  brilliant  operations  of  the  Western 
armies." 

He  married  in  Stamford,  March  15,  1866,  Julia,  only 
daughter  of  N.  E.  Adams,  Esq.  He  was  soon  ordered  to 
Fort  Stevenson,  Dacota  Territory,  to  defend  our  frontier 
against  the  Indians,  to  which  post  his  wife  accompanied  him, 
remaining  here  until  the  spring  of  1868,  when,  with  her 
little  one  she  left  him,  to  spend  the  summer  with  her  friends 
at  the  East.  Soon  the  s;id  news  followed  of  his  sudden 
death.  He  had  fallen  from  his  horse,  June  5,  1868,  and 
received  a  fatal  wound  upon  the  head.  He  lingered,  how- 
ever, in  an  unconscious  state  until  the  10th,  when  death 


140  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS5    MEMORIAL. 

released  him.  Of  his  death,  Gen.  R.  de  Trobriand,  officially 
makes  this  report :  "  A  serious  loss  to  the  army,  and  will  be 
especially  felt  among  his  comrades  and  associates  both  in 
the  volunteer  and  regular  service,  who  could  better  appre- 
ciate his  merits  as  an  officer,  and  his  refined  qualities  as  a 
gentleman." 

His  remains  were  brought  to  Stamford  and  buried  from 
the  Congregational  church,  Aug.  23,  1868,  in  Woodland 
Cemetery.  His  widow  and  infant  daughter  are  now  residing 
here. 

CHARLES  E.  PROVOST,  Co.  D,  6th  Conn.,  was  captured  at 
Deep  Run,  and  sent  to  Andersonville.  After  six  months 
imprisonment  he  was  released  in  a  starving  condition,  and 
reached  the  hospital  at  Annapolis,  Md.,  where  three  days 
later,  death  put  an  end  to  his  sufferings.  An  excellent 
soldier. 

CHARLES  ROSBOROUGH,  Co.  A,  28th  Conn.,  son  of  George  and 
Honora  Rosborough,  was  wounded  at  Port  Hudson,  June  14, 
1863,  by  a  ball  which  reached  his  heart,  but  without  killing 
him.  In  attempting  to  escape  from  guerillas,  while  on  his  way 
to  the  hospital,  at  Baton  Rouge,  he  was  attacked  by  a  sudden 
and  fatal  hemorrhage  and  died  at  the  hospital  July  11,  1863, 
at  the  age  of  twenty-four  years.  He  left  behind  him  the 
memory  of  a  genial,  generous-hearted  young  man,  and  his 
war  record  was  that  of  a  good  soldier  and  a  patriot  citizen . 

THEODORE  C.  SCOFIELD,  Co.  K,  6th  Conn.,  died  July  31, 

1862. 

WILLIAM  ELLSWORTH  SCOFIELD,  son  of  Wm.  Scofield,  died 
in  Memphis,  Tenn.,  May  17,  1863,  aged  twenty-two  years 
and  three  months.  He  had  wished  to  enter  the  service  while 
at  home,  but  was  dissuaded  from  doing  so  because  of  his 
physical  inability.  On  a  visit  to  his  relations  in  Illinois,  he 


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could  not  resist  the  call  made  upon  him,  and  entered  the 
74th  111.  regiment.  He  was  for  meritorious  conduct,  made 
orderly  sergeant.  He  was  a  noble  young  man,  and  a  coura- 
geous soldier.  He  was  offered  a  discharge  on  account  of  his 
health,  but  refused  to  accept  it.  He  continued  to  exhibit  a 
model  of  fidelity  in  all  the  routine  of  a  soldier's  duty,  until 
attacked  by  pneumonia,  which  proved  suddenly  fatal.  A 
memorial  service  was  held  in  his  honor  at  the  Congregational 
church  of  his  native  town,  June  14,  1863. 

GILBERT  SCOFIKLD,  Co.  A,  28th  Conn.,  son  of  Seth  Scofield, 
was  taken  with  the  fever  while  on  the  Mississippi,  and  was 
obliged  to  stop  on  the  way  home  with  the  regiment,  Aug. 
18,  1863,  at  Cleveland,  where  he  died  on  the  25th  of  the 
same  month. 

LEWIS  B.  SCOFIELD,  Co.  B,  28th  Conn.,  son  of  James  B. 
Scofield,  was  taken  sick  with  fever  at  Brashear  City,  on  the 
Mississippi,  and  sent  to  the  hospital  at  New  Orleans,  where 
he  died  Juno  13,  1863,  at  thirty  years  of  age.  lie  was  an 
excellent  young  man,  and  went  into  the  service  for  the 
love  he  bore  the  Union,  counting  not  his  life  dear  to  him,  if 
he  might  serve  so  good  a  cause.  His  remains  were  brought 
home,  and  his  funeral  services  were  held  in  the  Methodist 
church,  attended  by  a  large  number  of  our  people.  The 
Tlev.  Dr.  Sawyer,  of  Xew  York,  officiated,  and  his  remains 
were  deposited  in  the  new  Woodland  Cemetery. 

EDWARD  M.  SEELV,  Co.  D,  6th  Conn.,  son  of  Thomas 
Seely,  was  wounded  at  Fort  Wagner  in  1863,  and  taken 
prisoner,  Jan.  17,  1864,  with  so  many  of  his  comrades  near 
Bermuda  Hundred,  and  sent  to  Anderscnville.  After  his 
release,  while  on  the  Baltic,  he  died  before  reaching  Hilton 
Head,  when;  he  was  buried. 

BENJAMIN  O.  SEARLES,  Co.  B,  13th  Conn.,  son  of  Edwin 


142  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS5   MEMORIAL. 

G.  and  Maria  O.,  went  heartily  into  the  service  and  made 
a  good  soldier.  He  was  killed  in  the  fiery  charge  at  Irish 
Bend,  April  14,  1863,  in  which  "every  soldier  seemed  eager 
to  press  forward  to  accomplish  the  object  before  him."  He 
was  one  of  the  five  sons  furnished  by  this  family  for  the 
service,  and  it  was  to  his  credit,  that  he  stood  well  in  one  of 
the  best  regiments  furnished  by  the  State  during  the  war. 

GEORGE  R.  SEARLES,  Co.  A,  28th  Conn.,  son  of  Ira  Searles, 
was  attacked  on  the  Mississippi  with  the  local  fever  and  sent 
to  the  hospital  at  Mound  City,  where,  after  a  sickness  of 
about  two  weeks,  as  the  faithful  diary  of  Noah  W.  Hoyt 
testifies,  he  died  Aug.  19,  1863. 

GEORGE  B.  SELLECK,  Co.  B,  13th  Conn.,  whose  death,  Sept. 
29,  1862,  is  reported  in  the  "  Catalogue'  of  the  Conn.  Yol. 
Force." 

NATHAN  SHERWOOD,  Co.  A.  28th  Conn.,  son  of  Levi  Sher- 
wood, was  another  victim  to  the  exposures  of  camp  life  on 
the  Mississippi.  Pie  was  left  in  hospital  at  Algiers,  May 
24th,  according  to  Is.  W.  Hoyt's  diary,  and  died  according 
to  captain  Charles  Brown's  report,  July  30,  1863,  at  Foil 
Hudson,  where  he  was  buried.  He  left  a  family  here.  He 
was  in  the  twenty-eighth  year  of  his  age. 

JOHN  SIMMS.  Co.  G,  10th  Conn.  This  excellent  young 
man,  when  the  war  opened,  was  living  with  G.  K.  Riker, 
Esq.,  where  he  had  won  for  himself  a  good  name  as  a  faith- 
ful and  trustworthy  young  man.  The  testimonials  which 
were  given  at  his  death  are  ample  witnesses  MS  to  his  excel- 
lent character.  In  the  editorial  which  reports  the  funeral 
services  we  have  this  estimate  of  the  departed  soldier: 
"Early  left  an  orphan,  and  with  no  near  relative  living, 
John  Simms  was  a  self-made  man.  He  liad  none  of  tlie 
advantages  which  a  finished  education,  or  high  social  position 


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gives,  yet,  by  his  manly  deportment  and  strict  integrity  he 
had  gained  the  esteem  and  good  wishes  of  all  who  knew  him." 

The  Rev.  P.  S.  Evans,  his  pastor,  in  the  funeral  sermon 
which  he  preached  Feb.  1,  1863,  thus  testifies  : 

''  Our  brother  first  became  known  to  me  in  November, 
1859,  at  which  time  he  joined  our  church  by  letter.  From  the 
first  he  was  loved  and  respected  by  all  who  knew  him. 
As  a  member  of  the  church  he  was  distinguished  for  manly 
earnestness  and  childlike  humility.  lie  was  constant  in  his 
attendance.  He  labored  with  great  self-distrust,  but  with 
scrupulous  faithfulness  in  the  Sabbath  school.  When,  now 
nearly  two  years  since,  the  echo  of  the  guns  of  Sumpter 
sounded  through  the  land,  John  Simms  was  one  of  those 
who  stepped  to  the  front.  He  said  he  had  but  one  life,  but 
that  was  at  the  service  of  his  country.  During  that  first 
three  months  oi  service  none  could  have  been  more  faithful 
as  a  soldier  and  a  Christian  than  he.  Every  one  spoke  well 
of  him.  On  his  return  he  was  asked  if  he  had  not  seen 
enough  of  soldiering?  'No,'  said  he,  'the  danger  is  more 
imminent  now  than  then.  My  country  calls  more  loudly 
than  before.  The  horrible  field  of  Bull  Run  was  so  dis- 
graceful, both  to  officers  and  men,  that  it  must  be  avenged.' 
After  a  brief  respite  he  re-enlisted  in  the  Tenth  Conn.  Here 
he  won  golden  opinions  from  comrades  and  officers.  He 
bore  a  gallant  part  in  the  battles  of  Roanoke  Island  and 
Newbern.  Whoever  may  have  flinched,  he  did  not.  He 
always  spoke  encouragingly  and  hopefully  of  the  final  issue.'' 

Mr.  Simms  was  sent  home  on  recruiting  service,  and 
during  his  absence  was  promoted  2d  lieutenant,  when  the 
Sunday  School  of  the  Baptist  church  presented  him  with  a 
sword. 

The  occasion  of  his  fatal  wound,  we  have  given  us,  in  Mr. 
Evans'  sermon.  "  An  expedition  was  planned  against 


144  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS '    MEMORIAL. 

Kingston  and  Goldsboro,  and  the  famous  Tenth  must  share 
the  dangers  and  the  glory.  He  was  not  wanting  at  the  post 
of  danger,  when  it  was  the  post  of  duty  ;  and  during  the 
progress  of  the  fight,  at  Kingston,  Dec.  14,  1862,  he  received 
the  wound  of  which  he  has  since  died.  It  was  at  first 
thought  that  the  wound  was  slight.  After  lingering  in  un- 
certainty, mingled  with  hope  and  fear  for  three  weeks,  it 
became  evident  to  all  that  he  must  die — and  on  the  llth  of 
Jan.,  1863,  he  fell  asleep  in  Jesus."  His  remains  now  lie 
in  our  beautiful  Woodland  Cemetery. 

Our  hearts  with  their  anguish  are  broken,  our  wet  eyes  are  dim  ; 
For  us  is  the  loss  and  the  sorrow,  the  TRIUMPH  for  him. 

PHCEBE  CARET. 

SYLVANUS  SMITH,  Co.  B,  28th  Conn.,  like  so  many  other 
of  his  comrades  after  the  exposures  on  the  Mississippi  flats, 
during  the  summer  of  1863,  gave  out  on  the  way  home,  and 
was  left  in  the  hospital  at  Buffalo,  where  he  died,  Aug.  19, 
1863,  leaving  here  a  wife  and  two  children,  of  whom  the 
wife  and  one  child  died  soon  after  his  death. 

GKOSVENOR  STARR,  adjutant,  7th  Conn.,  son  of  Mrs.  Henry 
B.  Starr.  See  "  Citizen  Service,"  p.  29.  Died  at  Tybee 
Island,  March  5,  1862,  after  a  sickness  of  five  weeks.  "  Mr. 
Starr  was  at  the  breaking  out  of  the  war,  a  student  at  Yale. 
The  idol  of  his  classmates,  who  fondly  watched  his  progress 
with  warm  anticipations  of  his  future  success,  he  was  dis- 
tinguished both  for  his  scholarly  attainments  and  his  social 
qualities. 

"  There  is  no  need  of  many  added  words  to  tell  what  he 
was.  The  one  title,  a  Christian  soldier,  covers  all.  At  the 
age  of  fifteen,  lie  girded  himself  with  that  heavenly  armor, 
with  which  the  soul  encounters  its  unseen  foes — the  vows 
that  he  then  renewed  in  confirmation.  The  emblems  that 


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were  laid  upon  his  coffin  as  it  was  borne  by  his  sorrowing; 
classmates  to  be  laid  before  the  altar,  when  were  spoken  the 
comforting  words  of  the  last  service,  were  his  completed 
epitaph.  Above  his  breast  rested  the  wreath  of  spotless 
flowers.  Upon  the  hero's  sword, — the  gift  of  his  loving 
classmates, — was  placed  the  cross." 

The  funeral  of  Mr.  Starr  was  attended  from  St.  Barth- 
olomew's church  New  York  City,  and  his  remains  lie  in  the 
family  lot  in  Greenwood. 

ALBERT  STEVENS,  son  of  Albert  Stevens  of  New  Canaan, 
on  the  opening  of  the  war,  promptly  volunteered  for  the 
service.  He  had  already  seen  considerable  service  in  the 
Florida  war.  and  under  Gen.  Scott  in  Mexico.  Having:  the 

O 

reputation  of  an  admirable  tactician,  and  fired  with  an  earn- 
estly loyal  zeal,  he  was  commissioned  captain  of  Co.  F,  3d 
Conn.  Volunteers.  He  served  through  the  three  months  as 
captain  of  this  company,  winning  in  this  service  the  reputa- 
tion of  one  of  our  most  courageous  captains;  and  returning 
with  the  company  was  honorably  discharged.  He  re-enlisted 
into  the  17th  Conn,  and  served  in  the  ranks,  but  his  health 
failing,  he  was  detailed  as  hospital  nurse.  His  death  from 
disease  occurred  at  Hilton  Head.  June  18.  18(54.  He  left  one 
son. 

WM.  T.  STEVENS,  Co.  1>,  1  Tth  Conn.,  was  injured  while 
felling  trees  for  the  encampment.  He  was  sent  to  the  hos- 
pital in  Washington  where  he  had  a  typhoid  fever.  He  was 
afterwards  sent  to  Fort  Schuyler,  where  he  obtained  a  pass 
to  New  York  City  for  twenty-four  hours  to  meet  his  wife. 
On  his  return  he  missed  the  boat  and  was  therefore  tardy  in 
reporting.  He  was  sent  to  the  guard  house  where  he  took 
a  cold,  from  which  he  never  recovered.  He  died  at  Fort 
Schuyler,  Feb.  1,  18(53,  leaving  a  wife  to  mourn  over  one  of 
the  most  inconsolable  hardships  of  a  soldier's  fate. 


14-6  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS'    MEMORIAL. 

HENRY  STOTTLAR,  son  of  widow  Catharine  Stottlar,  was 
born  May  26,  1839.  He  enlisted  into  the  Navy  at  the  early 
age  of  fifteen,  and  served  before  the  mast  on  the  African 
coast.  In  1862  he  was  on  the  U.  S.  Ship  Onward,  stationed 
at  Savannah.  With  a  boat's  crew  he  was  captured  in  July 
of  that  year,  while  on  reconnoitering  expedition  and  paroled. 
While  on  the  voyage  home,  on  the  Ship  Mountaineer,  from 
Port  Royal,  on  the  18th  of  April,  1863,  he  fell  from  the 
mizzen  topsail  yard,  struck  the  rail,  fell  overboard  and  was 
drowned.  One  of  his  shipmates  in  a  letter  of  condolence  to 
the  afflicted  mother  says  of  him  :  "  he  was  loved  on  ship- 
board and  honored  on  shore  by  all  that  knew  him  as  an 
honest  and  upright  young  man."  He  was  the  youngest  of 
the  five  sons  of  widow  Stottlar,  who  volunteered  into  the 
service  of  the  Government. 

GEORGE  C.  SWATHEL,  Co.  D,  6th  Conn.,  died  Sept,  22, 1864. 

He  was  a  faithful  soldier  of  whom  his  comrades  thus  tes- 
tify, in  their  resolutions  of  condolence  passed  the  day  after 
his  death.  "  We  mourn  him,  now  that  he  sleeps  in  a  soldier's 
grave,  as  one  in  whom  the  service  has  lost  a  most  devoted 
citizen  soldier,  his  town  and  state  a  noble  son,  the  cause 
another  martyr,  and  his  regiment  an  ornament." 

Mr.  Swathel  left  a  wife  and  three  children.  By  the  timely 
provision  of  Benjamin  Fitch,  Esq.,  of  Darien,  his  Orphans' 
Home  had  just  been  opened,  and  the  two  sons  of  the  deceased 
soldier  were  well  provided  for,  in  their  early  orphanage.  The 
widow  and  her  daughter  still  reside  in  Stamford. 

~ 

JOSEPH  A.  SUTTON,  Co.  H,  28th  Conn.,  after  being  honor- 
ably discharged,  July  28,  1863,  with  his  regiment,  was 
reported  as  having  died. 

JAMES  LAWRENCE  TAYLOR,  5th  "N".  Y.,  Duryee's  Zouaves, 
son  of  James  and  Jane  R.  Taylor,  and  born  in  ISTew  York 


OBITUARY.  147 

City,  Sept.  7,  1840,  was  one  of  the  earliest  volunteers  from 
the  town.  And  he  entered  the  service  with  all  his  heart, 
ready  to  dare  and  die  if  necessary.  No  importunity  of  his 
friends  could  dissuade  him.  His  patriot  plea  for  their  con- 
sent was  :  "  Could  I  he  so  craven  as  to  prefer  comfort  with 
those  I  love,  ease  and  luxury  at  home,  while  others  are  laving 

*/  »'          cj 

down  their  lives  on  the  battlefield  ?"  Though 'ill,  on  that 
fatal  night  when  his  company  was  ordered  to  prepare  for  the 
attack  on  Great  Bethel,  he  was  one  of  the  first  men  ready 
for  the  march.  And  on  the  march  of  some  twenty  miles,  he 
was  buoyant  and  cheerful,  with  his  never  failing  words  of 
encouragement  for  his  comrades,  who  were  disposed  to  doubts 
and  fears. 

They  approach  the  object  of  their  march.  Forewarned, 
the  rebels  are  strongly  entrenched  behind  their  masked 
batteries.  The  forlorn  charge  is  sounded  and  the  desperate 
attempt  fails.  Early  in  the  movement  Taylor  fell  from  a 
musket  ball  and  was  taken  to  the  rear  by  his  chaplain, 
Winslow,  and  Lieut.-Col.  Warren,  and  provided  for,  in  a 
family  by  the  name  of  Dawson,  about  two  miles  from  where 
he  had  fallen.  There,  after  a  night  of  suffering,  with  no 
word  of  complaint,  yet,  despite  the  mortal  agony  which  was 
fast  conquering  his  young  life,  with  words  of  heroic  cheer 
for  the  dear  ones  he  had  left  behind,  he  breathed  his  last. 
ik  Tell  them,  I  died  on  the  battlefield,  in  a  holy  and  glorious 
cause." 

And  so,  the  first  representative  from  Stamford  died,  on  the 
morning  of  June  11,  1801;  and  as  its  light  dawned,  they 
buried  bis  remains  in  a  field  near  the  place  of  his  last  suffer- 
ings. His  comrades,  his  colonel  and  his  chaplain,  agree  in 
their  affectionate  testimonials  to  his  excellent  character,  and 
to  his  admirable  soldierly  conduct.  And  no  one  can  tell  the 
hiss  which  the  stricken  familv  felt  when  this  dutiful  son  arid 


148  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS5    MEMORIAL. 

loving  brother,  was  so  suddenly  stricken  down.  But  was  it 
not  honorable  thus  to  die,  on  the  same  field,  and  in  the  same 
engagement  in  which  Winthrop  and  Greble  fell  ? 

In  June,  1865,  his  remains  were  recovered  and  now  rest 
in  the  family  lot  at  Greenwood. 

JOHN  J.  TAYLOR,  Co.  B,  13th  Conn.,  died  at  Thibodeaux, 
Feb.  17,  1864,  leaving  a  family. 

JOHN  W.  THORNE,  Co.  B,  13th  Conn.,  is  reported  in  the 
Catalogue  of  the  Connecticut  Volunteer  Force,  as  dying, 
Sept.  6,  1863. 

MARINUS  W.  THORNE,  Co.  D,  6th  Conn.,  son  of  Lewis 
Thorne,  was  reported  in  the  Catalogue  of  the  Connecticut 
Volunteer  Force,  as  deserting,  Feb.  27,  1863.  The  report 
was  made  because  he  was  not  present  at  roll-call  after  his 
furlough  had  expired.  He  had  left  home  to  return,  intending 
to  join  his  company  at  New  York,  then  on  the  way  to  the 
field  again,  but  by  some  foul  treatment,  was  disabled  and 
robbed  in  New  York.  When  the  report  of  his  desertion  was 
made  at  Headquarters,  he  had  already  fallen  a  victim  to  the 
brutal  treatment  he  had  suffered.  He  died  at  one  of  the 
hospitals  in  New  York,  and  his  remains  now  lie  among 
hundreds  of  his  fallen  comrades  in  the  Cypress  Hill  Ceme- 
tery. His  mother,  now  Mrs.  G.  S.  Smith,  is  now  living  here. 

WILLIAM  H.  TOTTEN,  Co.  A,  28th  Conn.,  son  of  Hiram 
and  Hannah  Totten,  died  at  Camp  Ferris,  Barrancas,  Fla., 
March  28,  1863,  of  typhoid  fever.  His  remains  were  buried 
in  the  Navy  Yard  cemetery  on  the  following  Sunday.  He 
had  been  sick  about  three  weeks,  and  was  apparently  recov- 
ering when  the  order  was  given  to  evacuate  Pensacola.  The 
removal  to  Barrancas  was  too  much  for  him,  the  relapse 
which  followed,  proving  fatal.  "  He  was  beloved  by  his 


OBITUARY.  149 

company  and  all  who  knew  him.  He  was  always  ready  to 
do  his  duty,  whatever  it  might  be."  Noble  record  for  the 
young  soldier,  now  dead.  Every  such  record  is  an  honor, 
not  to  the  name  alone  of  those  who  thus  suffer  and  die,  but 
to  the  family  which  has  reared,  and  to  the  town  which  has 
lent  such  sons  for  such  service. 

JAMES  YAIL,  Co.  A,  28th  Conn.,  was  killed  in  the  assault 
on  Port  Hudson,  June  14,  1863.  He  left  a  family. 

GEORGE  VANDERVALT,  1st  Reserve  Cavalry,  Pa.,  was  re- 
ported as  shot  through  the  head  while  in  the  service.  He 
was  one  of  the  three  sons  of  Soren  Yandervalt,  who  were  in 
the  service. 

JACOB  W.  VINCENT,  Co.  B,  17th  Conn.,  son  of  Gilbert, 
was  taken  prisoner  with  so  many  of  this  company,  May  19, 
1864,  in  Florida,  and  sent  into  rebel  prisons. 

JAMES  HENRY  WALTERS,  son  of  William  and  Delia  (Hoyt) 
Walters,  was  born  May  5,  1831.  On  the  opening  of  the 
war,  he  offered  himself  as  a  volunteer  to  the  Sixth  Connect- 
icut, but  was  rejected  from  physical  disability.  He  went  to 
New  York  and  enlisted  into  Co.  Iv,  14th  1ST.  Y.  S.  M.,  or  the 
84th  IS".  Y.  Volunteers.  He  was  wounded,  Aug.  2,  1862, 
and  taken  to  the  hospital  at  Washington,  where  he  died, 
Aug.  2,  1802.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church 
here,  and  left  a  wife  and  three  children.  Two  of  them,  the 
children  by  a  former  wife,  were  taken  to  Fitch's  Home  in 
Daricn,  where  one  is  still  well  cared  for.  His  widow  is  yet 
living  in  Stamford. 

WM.  II.  WALTON,  Co.  B,  28th  Conn.,  son  of  Darius 
Walton,  was  another  victim  of  the  exposures  of  the  Missis- 
sippi Y  alley,  lie  died  in  the  New  Orleans  Barracks  Hos- 
pital, June  16,  1863,  leaving  here  a  family.  Two  of  his 


150  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS'    MEMORIAL. 

children  have  found  timely  care  and  instruction  in   Fitch's 
Home  in  Darien. 

JASON  WARDELL,  Co.  A,  28th  Conn.,  son  of  Henry  and 
Lois  Wardell.  He  was  one  of  the  three  representatives  of 
the  town,  who  were  killed  in  the  unsuccessful  assault  made 
on  Port  Hudson,  June  M,  1863.  He  was  only  twenty-two 
years  of  age,  when  he  thus  laid  himself,  a  victim  on  the  altar 
of  his  zeal  for  the  cause  which  he  served. 

ANDREW  C.  WATERBURY,  Co.  A,  28th  Conn.,  son  of  the 
late  Webster  Waterbury,  of  ISTew  York  City.  An  amiable 
young  man  and  a  good  soldier,  was  taken  with  the  measles 
while  in  camp  at  Port  Hudson.  From  a  relapse,  occasioned 
by  drinking  freely  of  spring  water,  he  died  Aug.  2,  1863, 
at  twenty-two  years  of  age. 

STEPHEN  R.  WATERBURY,  brother  of  the  above,  in  the 
same  company,  and  held  in  like  esteem  bv  his  comrades, 
died  Aug.  4,  1863,  of  the  same  disease  with  his  brother,  and 
from  a  similar  relapse.  Both  of  them  were  buried  at  Port 
Hudson  where  they  died. 

JOHN  WATERS,  Co.  C,  28th  Conn.,  son  of  Stephen  Waters, 
died  Aug.  1,  1863,  leaving  a  family.  One  of  his  children 
has  been  provided  for  at  Fitch's  Home,  in  Darien.  He  is 
reported  on  the  State  "  Catalogue  of  the  Volunteer  Force," 
as  being  honorably  discharged  Aug.  28, 1863,  nearly  a  month 
after  his  death. 

JAMES  W.  WEBB,  son  of  Xoah  and  R.  E.  Webb,  born  in 
Feb.  18-i6,  and  though  only  sixteen  years  old,  enlisted  April 
10,  1862,  into  Co.  A,  1st  Conn.  Artillery.  He  was  notice- 
ably a  prompt  and  valiant  youth  and  a  good  soldier.  He 
shrunk  from  no  exposure  or  hardship  which  was  in  the  way 
of  duty,  and  earned  the  confidence  and  good  will  of  all  his 
comrades  in  the  service.  lie  died  Aug.  8,  1862,  from  fever, 


OBITUARY.  151 

near  Harrison  Landing,  on  the  James  river,  in  Virginia. 
The  body,  embalmed,  was  forwarded  to  Stamford,  and  at 
the  request  which,  in  his  thoughtfulness,  he  had  made  before 
leaving  home,  his  funeral  was  attended  from  the  TTniversalist 
church.  His  remains  were  the  first  which  had  been  brought 
back  to  the  town,  and  were  deposited  in  the  receiving  tomb 
of  the  new  Woodland  Cemetery,  until  a  lot  should  be  pur- 
chased for  the  fallen  soldiers  of  the  town. 

WILLIAM  O.  WEBB,  Co.  A,  28th  Conn.,  son  of  Frederick 
Webb,  was  wounded  June  14,  1863,  at  Port  Hudson,  and 
was  sent  to  the  hospital  at  Baton  Rouge,  where  he  died,  June 
30,  1863.  His  remains  were  buried  there.  He  left  a  family. 

GEORGE  W.  WILMOT,  Co.  C,  28th  Conn.,  son  of  Theodore 
Wilmot.  The  third  day  after  the  assault  on  Port  Hudson, 
June  17,  1863,  as  he  was  going  out  from  his  rifle  pit  to  get  a 
drink  of  water,  he  was  shot  through  the  heart.  His  remains 
were  buried  at  Port  Hudson. 

WILLIAM  E.  WHITE,  captain  Co.  K,  UOth  N.  Y.  S.  M.,  a 
step  son  of  the  late  Peter  Smith,  Esq.,  of  Stamford.  The 
following  testimonial  in  the  official  notice  of  his  death,  is 
worthy  a  place  on  our  record.  It  is  addressed  to  Adjutant- 
General  L.  Thomas,  IT.  S.  Army,  Washington,  D.  C.,  by 
Col.  William  Chapman,  commanding  the  draft  rendezvous, 
Wisconsin  : 

"  It  is  with  deep  regret  that  I  announce  to  you  the  death 
of  Capt.  William  E.  White,  90th  New  York  Volunteer 
Infantry,  Assistant  Quartermaster  at  this  rendezvous.  He 
expired  at  10.30  o'clock,  A.  M.,  Feb.  4,  1865,  at  his  board- 
ing house  in  the  city  of  Madison,  to  which  place  lie  was 
removed  from  camp  Randall,  a  few  days  previous  to  his 
death.  Capt.  White  reported  for  duty,  Nov.  30,  1864,  and 
was  appointed  Acting  Assistant" Quartermaster  on  the  30th 


152  STAMFORD    SOLDI EKS'    MEMORIAL. 

of  that  month,  and  although  his  constitution  was  much 
debilitated  by  disease,  the  result  of  exposure  in  the  field,  he 
discharged  his  duties  in  a  most  faithful  and  satisfactory  man- 
ner, until  within  a  few  days  of  his  death. 

"  Capt.  White  was  highly  esteemed  and  respected  for  his 
mild  and  agreeable  manners,  the  general  excellence  of  his 
character,  and  his  devotion  to  the  service  in  which  he  had 
volunteered."  The  remains  of  Capt.  White  were  brought 
to  Stamford.  His  funeral  was  attended  in  St.  John's  Church, 
Feb.  10,  1865. 

GEORGE  A.  YOUNGS,  Co.  K,  8th  New  York  artillery,  died 
in  Calver  Hospital,  Washington,  D.  C.,  from  disease  con- 
tracted in  the  service.  His  funeral  was  attended  here,  Oct. 
12,  1864,  in  the  Baptist  Church.  He  was  a  young  man 
held  in  high  esteem,  both  for  his  intelligence  and  for  his 
excellent  social  qualities. 


FAMILIES  REPRESENTED  BY  TWO  OR  MORE  SONS. 


On  page  34  of  our  Citizen  Service  will  be  found  a  para- 
graph giving  the  number  of  our  familes  which  were  repre- 
sented in  the  service  by  three  sons  or  more.  It  seemed 
desirable  to  indicate  these  families  and  the  sons  thus  repre- 
senting them.  I  have  therefore  completed  and  enlarged  the 
list,  as  far  as  my  means  of  information  has  allowed,  and 
have  also  added  to  that  list,  those  families  which  have  fur- 
nished two  sons  for  the  service. 

The  family  spoken  of  on  page  34,  as  furnishing  one  son 
and  seven  grandsons  is  that  of  widow  Alexander  Ingersoll. 
Her  grandsons  were  not  all  living  in  Stamford,  though  they 
so  worthily  represented  the  Stamford  family. 

The  following  is  the  list  of  these  families,  all  of  whose 
sons  are  heretofore  reported  on  our  military  or  naval  record  : 

HARVEY  HOBBY  :  Charles  A.,  Theodore,  Selah  R.,  William, 
Horace  P.  and  Albert. 

WIDOW  CATHARINE  STOTTLAR  ;  John.  Jacob.  Martin,  Chris- 
topher and  Henry. 

LEWIS  SCOFIEI.D  :  James  T.,  Geo.  A.,  Alfred  V.,  Lewis  W. 
and  N/oah  T. 

EDWIN  G.  SKARLKS  :  John  II.,  George  E.,  Benjamin  ()., 
Henry  C.  and  Clarence  E. 

E.  WEBB  XTCHOLS  :  Charles  II.,  James  II..  Theodore  and 
and  Edward  E. 


154  STAMFORD    SOLDIERS5    MEMORIAL. 

WILLIAM  WALTERS  :  James  H.,  Charles  C.,  Edward  H. 
and  John  W. 

MICHAEL  O'NEIL  :  Peter,  William,  Michael  and  Henry. 

JOHN  FEEKS  :  Joseph,  Geo.  D.,  William  IS",  and  Wright  H. 

JOSEPH  NICHOLS  :  Nicholas  N.,  John  Q.,  Joseph  and  Na- 
thaniel H. 

SHERMAN  LOCKWOOD  :  A.  J.,  S.  D.,  and  James  L. 

DEACON  A.  SCOFIELD  :  Walter  K.,  George  A.  and  John  O. 

J.  M.  HOYT  :  Henry  W.,  Noah  W.,  and  John  L. 

JOSEPH  LOWER  :  Lewis,  Henry  and  John. 

MRS.  MARY  A.  BING  :  William  A.  Morehouse,  E.  J.  and 
Charles  Bing. 

JOSEPH  BOUTON  :  Theodore  W.,  William  H.,  and  Spencer. 

WEBSTER  WATERBURY  :  Andrew  C.,  Stephen  R.,  and 
James  W. 

GEORGE  W.  ANDERSON  :  Joel  M.,  Geo  W.,  and  Henry  H. 

LEWIS  RAYMOND  :  Cyrus  J.,  Stiles  and  Bradford. 

SETH  MILLER:  Charles  W.,  Theodore  and  John  W. 

EZRA  R.  SAUNDERS  :  George  F.,  Benjamin  R.  and  W.  W. 

JOHN  BILLINGS  :  Aaron,  Isaac  and  Adam  F. 

MRS.  GEORGE  W.  TOMS  :  Theodore  W.  Swan,  Alonzo  P, 
and  George  W.  Toms. 

SOREN  VANDERVALT  :  George,  Emanuel  and  John. 

DEACON  T.  DAVENPORT  :  Theodore,  John  and  James  B. 

JOHN  FERGUSON  :  John  D.,  Samuel  and  Walter. 

CALVIN  CHAMBERLAIN  :  Allen  and  George  W. 
BENJAMIN  J.  DASKAM  :  James  W.  and  Eugene  B. 
HON.  J.  B.  FERRIS  :  Samuel  P.  and  Isidore. 
THOMAS  GARDNER  :  Horace  and  Lewis. 
EDWIN  HOYT:  George  and  John. 
ISAAC  HOYT  :  Andrew  and  George. 
AARON  JUNE  :  George  W.  and  William  H. 


FAMILIES    REPRESENTED    BY    TWO    OR    MORE    SONS.          155 

DANIEL  JONES  :  Lewis  and  Nahor. 
STEPHEN  LOUNSBURY  :  Henry  J.  and  S.  R. 
AARON  MEEKER  :  Lorenzo  and  William  H. 
LEWIS  McDoNALD  :  Lewis  and  Robert. 
GEORGE  PROVOST  :  Andus  and  Charles  E. 
REUBEN  PEATT  :  William  S.  and  R.  C. 
WILLIAM  PARKER  :  John  and  William. 
SEYMOUR  SEARLES  :  Edward  and  John  E. 
JAMES  B.  SCOFIELD  :  Geo  E.  and  Lewis  B. 
H.  K.  SKELDING  :  II.  T,  and  Thomas. 
ISAAC  SMITH  :  Charles  W.  and  Stephen. 
GEORGE  W.  SMITH  :  George  G.  and  T.  E. 
SKINNER  TOMS  :  Edgar  and  George. 
DAVID  WILMOT  :  H.  L.  and  Joseph. 
NOAH  WEBB  :  Allen  and  James  W. 
JAMES  WARREN  :  James  and  Joseph. 
WILLIAM  YOUNGS  :  George  W.  and  John  R. 
ISAAC  JONES  :  Cyrus  D.  and  Isaac  S. 
ALEXANDER  PROVOST  :  Charm cey  and  Norman. 
R.  W.  SHUFELDT  and  R.  W.  Slmfeklt,  Jr. 
JOFIN  R.  YOUNGS  and  son  Edward  Youngs. 


I   X   I)  E  X  . 


Abbot,  Edward  M 57 

Ackley,  Abram  C 91,  120 

Adams,  George 8!) 

Adams,  Wm.  D Ill 

Allis,  Wells 15,42,44 

Anderson,  Geo  W 54,  154 

Anderson,  Joel  M 54,  154 

Anderson.   Henry  H 92,  111,  154 

Arents,    Edward 54 

Arnold,  A.  C 64 

Armstrong,  Richard 8& 

Asia,  Charles  E 93 

Avery,  A.  S 91 

Avery,  F.  B 94,  120 

Ayres,  Elbert 7,  69 

Ay  res,  Jas.  R 100,  120 

Ayres,  S.  L.  P 51,  111 

Badger,  Geo.  E 101 

Bailey,  E.  P 85 

Bailey,  C.  A 44 

Bailey,  T.  L 35,  44,  88,  120 

Bailey.  Win.  A 81 

Baker,  Patrick 94,    111 

Ballard.  Ela 44,  85 

Banks,  Wm.  II 85 

Banks,   Allen 9-5 

Banks,  Wm 93 

Barber,  James 05 

Barret,  Isaac 77,  79,  83 

Barmore,  Nath'l  jr.. 35.  85.  120 

Bates.  Frederick 54 

Beardsley,   Edson  E 44.  09 

Bedient, 'Theodore 94 

Bell,  Martin 91 

Bell,  Charles 85 

Benedict.  Geo 92 

Bennet,  N.  B 25,  77.  81,  86 

Beresford,  Henrv 90 


Betts,  Charles  E 98 

Billings,  Aaron 83, 154 

Billings,  Isaac 83,  154 

Billings,  Adam  F 83, 154 

Bing,  Ed.  J,  jr 44,  54,  120,  154 

Binpr,  Charles ...  .154 

Birdsell,  S.  S 94 

Bishop,  Hanford 100 

Bishop,  J.  E 95 

Bishop,  Alfred 65 

Bishop,  Wm.  H 95 

Bishop,  Fred 100 

Blake,  Benj.  G 65 

Bodey,  S.  1 82 

Bohan,  John 54,  65,  121 

Botts,  John  H 53 

Bouton,  Seth  S 54 

Bouton,  James  E 98 

Bout  on,  John  E 83,  121 

Bouton,  Wm.  C 83 

Bouton,  Theodore  W 83, 154 

Bouton,  Wm.  H 83,  154 

Bouton.  Spencer 83,  121, 154 

Bouton,  Saml.  M 85 

Bouton,  Ezra  C 35,  95,  121 

Boyd,  Andrew 35,  85.  121 

Brantiugham,  Chas.  N 112 

Brady,  A.  G 7,21,22,23,  68 

Brewer,  Wm.  II 94 

Brodlmrst,  A.  Z 73 

Brown,  Smith 44 

Brown,  George 57 

Brown,  Win 57 

Brown,  Chas.  II .  .7,  24,  74,  75,  77.  80 
81 

Brown,  Chas.  J 83 

Brown.  John 93.  122 

Brown,  George  E 93 

Brown,  Seelev 83 


158 


STAMFORD    SOLDIERS     MEMORIAL. 


Brown,  Chas.  H 107 

Brown,  Chas.  W 107 

Brown,  Phineas 88,  122 

Brown,  Thomas  L 92 

Brown,  Wm.  H 93 

Bryson,  Frank   35, 54, 122 

Burke,  Michael 93 

Burns,  Dennis 54,  69 

Bunten,  Robert 82 

Bunten,  G.  R 86 

Bush,  Harry 57 

Butcher,  John 86 

Buttry,  John 69,  122 

Buttry,  John  D 73 

Buxton,  Jas.  N 82 

Brush,  John  H 107 

Caliill,  Timothy.'.  . .' 90 

Cash,  Martin 69 

Card,  B.  W 85 

Card,  Wm.  H 89 

Carey,  Giles 53 

Caldwell,  Samuel 86,  122 

Caldwell,  C.  W 86 

Capper,  Henry  M 7,  44,  64 

Carrigan,  M 95 

Carrol,  John 100 

Carrol,  Morris 64,  94,  123 

Canfield.  J.  H 94 

Cavenough,  Peter 112 

Chad  wick,  John  H 69 

<" -hristison,  G.  B 69 

Chamberlain,  G.  W 70,  103, 154 

Chamberlain,  Allen 98,  112,  154 

Chaney,  Wm 90 

Clark,  J.  S 54,  123 

Clark,  John 55 

I       Clark,  E.  T 86,123 

Clock,  Geo.  W 83,  123 

Cline,  John  H 93 

Conlan,  James 44,  89 

Conley.  C.  H 85 

Coyne,  Wm.  H 55 

Corris,  Josepl 65 

Collins,  James 90 

Collins,  John 70 

Collins,  Michael 89 

Cook,  1,.  A 89,123 

Connelly.  John 90 

Conklin',  E.  W 94 

Conklin,  J.  L   94 

Conner,  Jeremiah.  .  . .  .95 


Conner,  Daniel 95 

Conroy,  Peter 112 

Comstock,  David  C.,  jr 7,  73,  102 

Councel,  Charles 90 

Crocker,  Albert  W 55 

Craw,  Thomas 55 

Crague,  J.  M 65 

Crabb,  E.  S 70 

Crabb,  George 83 

Crabb,  George  R 83 

Crabb.  W.  H 86 

Crissey,  Andrew 86,124 

Cunningham,  J.  B 57, 83 

Curtis,  Hiram 107 

Daily,  E.  R 99,  124 

Dann,  Smith 83 

j  Daskam,  E.  B 79,  80,  82,  154 

:  Daskam,  Jas.  W 97,  154 

j  Daskam,  John  W 58,  124 

Dayton,  C.  1 44,  112 

I  Davenport,  Jas.  B 108, 154 

!  Davenport,  John. .  ..24,  102,107,  154 
Davenport,  Theodore,  jr.  . .  .107, 154 

Deiner    Carl 57 

Decker,  David 112 

Decker,  Peter 112 

,  Delemater,  James 112 

,  Dever,  Cornelius 112 

!  Dever,  Richard 112 

Dever,  Cornelius 88 

Delcroix,  Theodore.  .  .  .14. 15,44,  88 

Dixon,  Alonzo 55 

,  Dixon,  Clark 91 

j  Dixon,  Levi 73 

I  Dixon,  S.  S 77,83 

:  Dinger.  Isaac 57 

Dillon,  Daniel 113 

Dillon,  Richard 113 

Drew,  David  R 113 

Drew,  John 55 

Drewer,  Charles   57 

Dunham,  Wm 69 

;  Durand,  Charles 78,85,124 

Ebbets,  Geo.  A 113 

Egan,  Michael 70 

Ensley,  0.  S 86 

Eldridge,  Geo.  A 85 

Ellis,  Joseph 93 

Essex,  Wm 92 

Evans,  P.  S .  7, 14, 16,  18, 19,  23,  26,  98 


INDEX. 


159 


Farrel,  James 90   Gilmore,  J.  D 44 

Farrel,  John 70   Gillespie,  Wm 35,  70,  126 

Farrel,  Patrick 103    Gilbert,  J.  M 83J 

Farnold,  Wm 70,  124   Gibson,  Joseph 99 

Farrington,  A.  E 83    Gibson,  Joseph  2d, 113 

Fagan,  Wm 94    Giblin,  James  H 113 

Ferris,  Ed.  A 44,  83   Glendining,  Geo.  W 113 

Ferris.  D.  W 57   Grady,  John 55 

Ferris,  W.  1 91,  125    Greaves,  B.  L. .  .7,  59,  60,  61,62,  126 

Ferris,  Wm.  H 65   Graham.  Thomas   R 70,  126 

Ferris,  Jas.  N 83    Green.  Simon 93 

Ferris,  A  P 86    Gray,  Stephen 92 

Ferris,  B.  P 86   Gifford,  E.   S 109 

Ferris,  Isaac 86 

Ferris,  Isidore 113,  154  |  Hay  ward,  F 77,  83 

Ferris,  Saml.  P.,   73,  74,  76,  81,  103. !  Hartson,  G.  W 35, 86, 126 

154  ;  Ilartman,  John 70 

Ferguson,  John  D 107,  154  j  Harrison,  E.O 69 

Ferguson,  Samuel 107,  154    Halpin,  Win 57.  88 

Ferguson,  Walton 108, 154    Hawkins,  W.  H 93 

Feeks,  Joseph 70,  153  !  Hannagan,    M 99 

Feeks,  Geo.  D 70, 125, 153  |  Hannagan,   Edward.    108 

Peeks,  Wm.  N 153  !  Hanford,  George 57 

Feeks.  Wright  H 88, 153    II  an  ford,  John 100 

Fessenden,  Saml 100    Hallock,  F.  Wm 98 

Fermin.  Joseph 92    Halleck,  T.  M 113 

Finch,  Geo.  W 94  |  Hall,  Samuel  T 70 

Finch,  David 55    Hall,  Wm.  L 86 

Finch.  Charles  E 55  I  Hawley,  F.  M 22,  113 

Finch,  Geo.  W 53  i  Harris,  Thomas  S 91 

Fish,  G.  W 99  |  Harvey,  John 44,  67,  09 

Fitzpatrick,  Patrick 70    Hnssenan,  John  F 55 

Fit/patrick,  John 70    llaight,  John  J 90.  57 

Foster,  J.  G 86    Hays,  Wm.    L 65 

Fox,  Patrick 57,  125  i  Hendricks,  W 95 

Fox,  Michael 35,  70,  125  i  Henry,  James 94 

Fox,  Thomas 1 13  '  Ileiser,  George 70 

Freeman.  Daniel 55,  125  i  Heiser,  Martin 70 

French,  B.  T 113    Hennesey.  Patrick 70 

Francis,  Rev.  E 32,  99  :  Hicks,   Harrison 84 

Fryermuth,  P 35,  H6,  125  :  Hobby,  Charles  A. 23,  42,  67,  68,  153 

Fuller,  P.  C 101,  126  i  Hobby,  Theodore 113,  153 

|  Hobby.  Horace  P 49,53.  128,  153 

Gay,  Eugene 57  j  Hobby,  William 44,  128,  153 

Ganuug.  Stephen 57  ,  Hobby,  Selah   H 69,  153 

Gagan,  John 86.  113  !  Hobby,  Albert 113,  153 

Gardiner,  Horace 98, 154    ]  lolly",  A.  J 83 

Gardiner,  Lewis 98.  154    Holly,  J.  M 113 

Gardner,  Lewis 113    Holly,  II.  S 86 

Gardner,  Joseph 113    Holly,  Henry    II 97 

*Gaylor,  C.  H 113    Holly,  Pierri-  R 101 

'Misprinted  Taylor.  HollV,  Francis  M KM 


160 


STAMFORD    SOLDIERS     MEMORIAL. 


Holly,  Charles  H 107 

Holmes,  Charles  P 107 

Holmes,  Joseph 129 

Holmes,  Samuel  H 107 

Holton,  John  A 89 


Hood,  Joseph 93 

Hoovey,  Joseph 57 

Howell.H.J 83 

Hounslow,  Roper 48,  55 

Hounslow,  Eli 70 

Hoyt,   George 73,  154 

Hoyt,  John 98, 154 

Hoyt,  J.  E 83,  129 

Hoyt,  I.  F 86 

Hoyt,  S.  H 35,  86,  129 

Hoyt,  Samuel  B 64,  129 

Hoyt,  Lyman 86 

Hoyt,  Emmet  M 101,  129 

Hoyt,  Andrew 35,  86,  129,  154 

Hoyt,  George 55, 154 

Hoyt,  H.  W 55, 130,  154 

Hoyt,  Noah  W 83,  154 

Hoyt,  John  L 55, 103, 154 

Hoyt,  Edgar 7,   68 

Hoyt,  Joseph  N 70 

Hoyt,  Lorenzo  L 35,  71 

Hoyt,    Frank 107 

Hoyt,   Oliver 107 

Hoyt,  Samuel  B 107 

Hoyt,  Charles  W 107 

Hudson,  George 113 


Jones,  Francis  H 88 

Jones,  Benjamin 91,  131 

Jones,  William  P 7,  14,  19, 103 

Jones,  I.  D 54,  131 

Jones,  James 55 

Jones,  Joseph 55,  131 

Jones,   B.  H 91 

Jones.  C.  D.,24,  25,26,  76,  80,85,107 
155 

Jones,  Isaac  S 107, 155 

Jones,  Lewis 85,  154 

Jones,  Nahor 86,  154 

Jones,   Alva. 
Jones,  F.  A. 


.100 
..93 
..90 


Johnson,  David  ............ 

Johnson,  William  .......... 

Johnson,  Samuel  H  ............  113 

J  une,  Jacob  ....................  94 

June,  John  L  ...................  71 

June,  William  H  ...........  86,  154 

June.  G.  W  ................  87,154 

June,  Theron  B  ............  58.  131 

June,   Elberc  ..................  107 

Kane,  Martin  ..................  114 

Kapf,  Frederick  ................  58 


Keeler,  Philip  B 


83 


Keeler,  Smith  O  ...............  64 

Keegau,  James  ................  101 


Keller.  William. 


.89 


Kelly,  John 44 


Hurd,  Peter.  . 101  j  Kelly,  John  2d 44,  71 

Hunter.  Jelm 57  !  Kelly,  Patrick 95 

Hull,  John 58    Kennedy,  Daniel 71,  114 

Husted,  Alfred  N 64   Kennedy,   Dennis 114 


Hurlbutt,  Lewis  R 107 

Inness,  W.  H 54 

Ingersoll,  T.  S 64, 130 

Ingersoll,  Samuel  C 101 


Ingersoll,  Alva. 
Ir\Ting,  Thomas 


.99 
.90 

.86 

Jackson,  Henry 58 

Jackson,  W.  H 71 


Jackson,  Henry  R . 


Kent,  George  W 55 


Kenuaday,  Edward . 


.108 


Ketcham  John . .  114 


Kirk,  Warren . 


.73 


King,  William  H 85 

Kiley,  John 114 

Knapp,  R.  S 64 

Knapp,  James  K 91 

Knapp,  Theodore 84 

Knapp,  Charles  W 7,  87 

..96 


Knapp,  C.  W 

Jennings,  Charles 35,87,  131  |  Kreig,  Jacob 14,  71 

Jeruian,  James  H 55  j  Kreig,  C.  II 44 

Jessup,  John  D 84  j  Krollpheiffer,  E 98 

Jessup,  E  B 69,131  | 

Jimraerson,  H.  F 77,  84  |  Lapham,  H.  H 114 

Jones,  Andrew  T 63  i  Lattan,  Abram 93 


INDEX. 


161 


Lasher,  Oscar 98 

Lawrence,   Zopbar 114 

Lawrence,  E.  B 85 

Lawler,  John 58 

Lawler,  Thomas 89 

Leonard,  John 1 14 

Lee,  Ilenrv 114 

Leeds,  F.  R 23,  24,  26,  81,  132 

Lever,  Philip 24, 44,  80,  82 

Leeds,  Edward  F 107 

Lind,  James 94 

Lilley,  John 89,  91 

Lincoln,  George  W 71 

Litehfield,  Charles  W 84,  132 

Lloyd,  George 114 

Lower,  Lewis 55,  154 

Lower,  Henry 84,  134,  154 

Lower,  John 77,  79,  84,  154 

Lowe,  Frederick 87 

Lowa,  William 54, 134 

Lounsbury,  II.  1 44,  69,  155 

Lounsbury,  S.  R 64,  155 

Lounsbury,  Banks 94,  134 

Lord,  George 54 

Lowney,  Thomas 87 

Lock  wood,  George  E 64 

Lock  wood,  Charles  H 54 

Lock  wood,  A  L 114 

Lock  wood,  Samuel  2d 87 

Lock  wood,  Charles  M 53 

Lock  wood,  E.  C 91 

Lockwood.  E.  A 91 

Lock  wood.  A.  J 55,  84,  134,  104 

Lockwood,  S.  D 35,  84, 134,  154 

Lockwood.  James  L 55,  133,  154 

Lockwood,  Samuel  R 87 

Lockwood,  William  H 87 

Lockwood,  George 98 

Lockwood,  Joseph   S 101,  184 

Luin  William  B 114 

Lyiion,  James 64 

Loeschegk,  Otto 117 


Mucrea,  Murrny  II 69,  135 

Munuahun.  M 114 

Manning,  John 104 

Mahan,  Hugh 35,  75,  135 

Marlin.   Richard 71 

McDonald,  J.  II 99,  135 

McDonald,  William 98 

McDonald,  Lewis 71,  155 

McDonald,  Robert 55,  155 


McCarty,   James 100 

McClellan,  J.  A 95 

McCormick,  A 94 

McGee,  James 54 

McQueon,  Frank 90 

McKeon,  Patrick 114 

Mead,  George  A  .  .35,  77,  79,  82,  135 

Mead,  Hanlord 77,  84 

Mead,  Hibbard 89,  136 

Meeker,  William   H 53,  155 

Meeker,  Lorenzo  7,  11,  14,  16,  46,  .10 
52,  155. 

Meeker,  George  H 71  88 

Mitchell,  Robert 92 

Miller,  Anthony 96 

Miller,  A.  E 114 

Miller,  Theodore.  .14,  15,  44,  63,  99, 

154 
Miller,  Charles  W.  .  .35,  87,  136,  154 

Miller,  John  W 99,  154 

Miller,  C.  E 88 

Miller,  R.  S 108 

Minor  John  C 102 

Minor,  William  T 19,  21,  22 

Miles,  John  A 35,  55,  130 

Moor,  Richard 96 

Morgan,    Michael 55 

Morgan,  Alonzo    S 82 

Morehouse,  W.  A 56,  137,  154 

Morann,  James 58 

Morris,  James 58 

Morrison,  S.  C 73 

Moger,  Aaron  J 65 

!  Morrell,  C.  E 35, 71,  137 

jMollett,  T.  W 84,  137 

I  Monroe,  William  II 94,  136 

Mulholland,  J 94 

!  Myers,  Richard 92 

Murphy,   Michael 44 

I  Newman,  Charles 58 

j  Newman,   J.  M 114 

j  Newell,  John  B 65 

Nellis,  William 92 

Nichols,  Watson  B 96 

Nichols,  N.  N 64,  154 

Nichols,   Joseph 64,  154 

Nichols,  N.  II 88,  154 

Nichols,  Charles  H 50,  51,  52.153 

Nichols,  John  Q 64,  154 

Nichols,  James  II 85,  153 

Nichols,  Theodore 97,  137,  153 


162 


STAMFORD    SOLDIERS     MEMORIAL. 


Nichols,  Edward  F 44, 114,  153 

Northrop,  Silas 56 

Northrop,  Corvus 90 

Nodyne,   Thomas 87 

Norman,  Ebenezer 90 

Nolan,   William 98 

Nugent,  E.   G 64 

Oakes,  William  C 58 

O'Brien,  Thomas 35,  89 

O'Brien  Frank 56 

O'Brien,  John 94 

Oldrin,  Edward 99 

O'Neil,  Michael 96, 154 

O'Neil,  Peter 96,  154 

*ONeil,   William 114,  154 

|       O'Neil  Henry: 104,  154 

O'Reily,  Jeremiah 93 

Osborn,  S.  S 73,  94.  137 

Olmstead,  James  H 107 

Paight,  Joseph 44,  78,  88 

Packet,  Henry 96 

Palmer,  David  C 58,  137 

Palmer,  C.  H 99 

Palmei,  E.  E 87 

Palmer  Nathan 90 

Parker,  A.  L 84 

Parker,  John 98,  155 

Parker,  William 98,  155 

Parks,  Rev.  J.  H 102 

Parketon,  Lewis'  •  •  • 71 

Payne,  E.  T 92 

Peatt,  William  S 56,  138 

Peatt,  Reuben 65,  138 

Peck,  T.  H 84,138 

Peck,  Alonzo 95 

Pender,  J.  W 58 

Pember,  Joseph  L 92 

Phyfe,  S.  M 99 

Potts,  James  A 56,  139 

Potts,  Joseph  W 71,  139 

Potts,  George  H 94 

Poinsett,  P 90 

Powell,  Albert  M 104,  139 

Powell,  William  98 

Picker,  Patsey 56,  139 

Picker,  Thomas of 

Pinkham.J.  D 94 

Pierson,  Richard 101 

Platt,  G.  W 35,82,  138 

*Misprinted  Henry. 


Pratt,  G.  H 90 

Pratt,  Edgar  L 56 

Provoet,  Norman 49,  53,  155 

Provost,  Chauncey 108,  155 

Provost,  Chas.  E 54,  140,  155 

Provost,  Andrus 56,  155 

Provost,  Lewis 84 

Quigley,  E.  H 71 

Quintard,  E.  A 99 

Rairden,  P 94 

Rankin,  Peter 114 

Randall,  Daniel 87 

Rambo,  S.  S 65 

Rafferty,  J 84 

Raymond,  Bradford 99,  154 

Raymond,    Cyrus  J 84,  154 

Raymond,  Stiles 77,  82,  154 

Reynolds,  W.  H 54 

Repke,   John 71 

Riley,  JohnT 102 

Rooney,  Peter 15,  45 

Rockwell,  Henry 81, 104 

Rosborough,  C.  A.  .  .  .77,  79,  84,  140 

Roscoe,  Henry  H 87 

Romer,  William  H 97 

Rowan,  J.  H 114 

Rusher,  C.  J 87 

Raeburn,  Alexander 108 

Rosborough,   John 108 

Saunders,  B.  R 100,  154 

Saunders,  W.  W 77,  87,  154 

Saunders,  Geo.  E 87,  154 

Scofield,  James  T 45,  72,  153 

Scofield,  Geo.  A 45,  69,  153 

Scofield,  Alfred  V 69,  153 

Scofield,  Lewis  W 69,  153 

Scofield,  Noah  T 87,  153 

Scofield,  W.  K 115,  154 

Scofield,  Geo.  A 114,  154 

Scofield,  John  O 114,  154 

Scofield,  George  E 87,  155 

Scofield,  Lewis  B 87,  144,  155 

Scofield,  TC 58,140 

Scofield,  Henry 56 

Scofield,  Smith 56.  77 

Scofield,  D.  C 85 

Scofield,  S.  S 87 

Scofield,  D.H 44,97 

Scofield,  Win 87 


INDEX. 


163 


Scofield,  J.  E  ...................  87 

Scofield,  Sam!  ..................  72 

Scofield,  A.  P  ...................  88 


Scofield,  Charles  ................  98 

Scofield.  Ch».M...  -.108 


Scofield,  Wm.  E 101,  140 

Bcofield,  James 104 

Scofield,  Leroy 108 


Scofield,  Saml 72 

Scofield,  Gilbert 84,  141 

Scofieid,  A.  W 82 


Scofield,  Geo.  E 84 

Scofield,  S.  L 84 

Scofield,  Andrew 84 

Scofield,  Smith 84 

Scofield,  Loomis 84 

Scofield,  Wm.H 72 

Scofield,  Robert  B 107 

Scriber,  Thomas 47,  54 

Searles,  John  H 100,  153 

Searles,  Ggo.  E 56,  153 

Searles,  Benj.  O 91,  141,  153 

Searles,  Henry  C 91,  100,  153 


Smith,  Chas.  L 87 

Smith,  Sylvanus 35,  65,  87,  144 

Smith,  Edwin  L 72 

Smith,  S.  S 82 

Smith,  Stephen 84,  155 


Smith,  Chas.  W  ............  96,  155 

Smith,  John  H  ..................  93 

Smith,  Wm.  W 


97 
Smith,  Edwin  L  ...............  104 

Smith,  Henry  V  ................  95 

Smith,  Chas.  J  .................  108 

Smith,  James  .................  107 

Sniffin,  Irving  L  ................  56 


Sniffin,  James  .................  115 

Sni  vely,  David  ..................  93 

Snyder,  O.  E  ....................  56 

Sparks,  John  S  ..................  56 

Stanley,  Thomas  ...............  87 

Steinert,  Henry  ................  115 

Steinert,  George  ................  72 

Staples,  S.  C  ...................  102 

Starr,  Henry  ....................  93 

Starr,  Eli  ......................  94 


Searles,  Clarence  E 58,  153 

Searles,  Edward 50,  155 

Searles,  John  Ennis 91,  155 

Searles,  Geo.  R 84.  142    Stevens,  Clark 115 

Searles,  Geo  H 91    Stevens,  M.  J 88 

Searles,  Mortimer 72    Stevens,  Hennel 102 


Starr,  Grosvenor 89,  144 

Stevens  Albert.  .  .40,  43,  44,  72,  145 
Stevens,  Alon/o 108 


Seaman,  Albert 96 


Seely.  E.  M 56,  141 

Selleck,  Hobby 115 

Selleck,  George  B 91,  142 

Selleck,  Benjamin 94 

Selleck,  A.  S 77,84 


Sherwood,  Henry  A 


.Si 


Sherwood,  Nathan 84, 142 

Sherwood,  Aaron  J 05 

Sherwood,  John 65 

St-ower,  Fred 99,  115 

Shuieldt,  R.  W 115,  155 


Shuieldt,  R.  W.,  jr.  . 


.115,155 


Stevens,  Wm.  T 72,  145 


Stevens,  Wm.H 88 

Stevens,  Chauncey 95 

Still,  F.  L " 45,  58,  104 

Stottlar,  John 48,  49,  51,  53,  153 

Stottlar,  Jacob 72,  153 

Stottlar,  Martin 47,  49,  53,  153 

Stottlar,  Christopher 69,  153 


Stottlar,  Henry . 


...115,146, 153 


Stockton,  J.  W 73 

Straut,  J.  R 95 

Stark,  Andrew 107 

St.  John,  John 107 

Sutton,  Joseph  A 89,  140 

Sullivan,. John 99 


Swan,  Theodore  W 45, 154 


Simms,  John 26,  45,  01,  03,  143 

Simpson.  Peter 90 

Skiddy,  Wm.  W 107 

Skeldiug,  H.  T 115,  155  j  Swathel,  George  C 35,  56,  140 

Skeldiny,  Thomas 'JO,  155  i  Swertcope,  J.  V 77,  79,  84 

Slater,  John 87  I  Swartwout,  Robert 107 

Sloan,  W.  M 104  ;  Swartwont,  Satterlee 107 

Smalart,  John 72 

Smith.  G.  G 58,  155  \  Tanner,  Abel 85 

Smith.  T.  F 58,  155  '  Tavlor,  Nehemiah 58 


164 


STAMFORD    SOLDIERS3    MEMORIAL. 


Taylor,  Chas.  H 113 

Taylor,  George  W 90 

Taylor,  John  J 35,  91,  148 

Taylor,  Wm.  S 84 

Taylor,  Wm 85 

Taylor,  James  L 96, 146 

Thome,  M.  W 56,  148 

Thorne,  John  W 91, 148 

Thompson,  Chas.  E 108 

Timson,  B.  S 58 

Toms,  A.  P 45,  154 

Toms,  Geo.  W 97,  154 

Toms,  Edgar 98, 155 

Toms,  George 98,  155 

Tonar,  Barney 56 

Townsend,  0 45, 58 

Toepfer,  J.  A 56 

Totten,  W.H 84,148 

Totten,  Hiram 98 

Todd,  G.  W 84 

Todd,  C.  J 115 

Trechardt,  John 58 

Treadwell,  C.  E 93 

Trowbridge,  Wm.  H 7  ,P2 

Tucker,  Henry 65 

Tucker,  S.  L 65 

Vail,  James 35,  79,  82,  144 

Vanderhoff,  Jacob 44,  72 

Vandervalt,  Geo 101, 149, 154 

Vandervalt,  E 72, 154 

Vandervalt,  John 47,  53, 154 

Vandivere,  George 92 

Vernal,  J.  H 44,89 

Vernal,  O.  W 56 

Vincent,  J.  W 72, 149 

Vinton,  D.  H 105 

Void,  Joseph 72 

Walters,  James  Henry.  .81,  149,  154 
Walters,  Charles  Conklin.  .  .  .56,  154 

Walters,  Edward  H 56, 154 

Walters,  John  Wesley 72,  154 

Walter,  Andrew 115 

Waters,  Jacob 82 

Waters,  John 35,  88,  150 

Walton,  Wm.  H 35,  88,  149 

Walton,  Josiah 93 

Walsh,  M.  M 96 

Waring,  Wm.  H 88 

Ward,  J.  D 57 

Wardwell,  Chas.  W 7,  33,  107 


Wardell,  J 77,  78,  85,  150 

Warner,  F.  R 76,  81,  82,  98 

Warren,  Geo.  L 107 

Warren,  James  C 99,  155 

Warren,  Joseph  R 97,  155 

Waterbury,  C.  W 88 

Waterbury,  Philip 88 

Waterbury,  Geo.  P 107 

Waterbury,  Marcus 23,  44,  68 

Waterbury,  Saml 58 

Waterbury,  A.  C 85,  150,  154 

Waterbury,  S.  R 85, 150, 154 

Waterbury,  J.  W 116,  154 

Waterbury,  Geo.  A 79,  85 

Waugh,  Dwight 107 

Weed,  Charles 85 

Weed,  Charles  L 85 

Weed,  Alexander 26,  82 

Weed,  Alexander  H 107 

Weed,  Geonre  W 73,  99 

Weed,  Levi  St.  John 73 

Weed,  John  E 99 

Weed,  George 43,  45,  72 

Weed,  Chas.  H 57 

Weed,  James -116 

Weed,  John  P 91 

Webb,J.  E 45 

Webb,  W.  O 35,  82,  151 

Webb,  Allen 89,  95,  155 

Webb,  Jas.  W 93,  150,  155 

Welch,  T.  M 89 

Welch,  James 116 

Welch,  J.  W 95 

Wessels,  A.  L 85 

White,  W.  E 99,  151 

Weston,  Charles 98 

Whiting,  Wm.  D 116 

Whitney,  Geo.  E 116 

Whitney,  W.  R 82 

Whitney,  H.  M 85 

Whaley,  Edward 72 

Whaley,  John 65 

Willcox,  Wm.  C 107 

Wilmot,  H.  L 80,  85,  155 

Wilmot,  Joseph 88,  155 

Wilmot,  J.  T 88 

Wilmot,  G.  W 88, 151 

Wilson,  R 93 

Wilson,  Robert 43,  45,  48,  54 

Wilson,  John  H 72 

Wilson,  W.  J 98 

Wicks,  Hercules 116 


INDEX. 


165 


William?,  Randolph 93 

Williams,  Wm 72 


Yates,  James  W .  . . 
Young's,  Edward.  . . 
Youngs,  George  W . 


Williams,  E.  M 85 

Wood,  S.  A 88  j  Youngs,'  J.  R."  .  .  . 

Woolsey,  M.  B 116    Youngs,  George  A . 

Wright,  James 57,  106 

Weed.  EdffarS 108 


.116. 
.  .54, 
.  .57, 
..98, 


155 
155 
155 

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CORRECTIONS  AND  ADDITIONS. 


Page  21,  line  14,  for  H.  K.,  read  D.  K. 

"    30,  "    26,  for  the  States,  read  these  States, 

"    56.  "    13,  for  Andrew,  read  Andrus. 

"    57,  "      7,  for  John  A,,  read  John  B. 

"    85,  "    27,  forEbenR.,  read  Eben  P. 
"    88,  all  the  names  between  Wm.  H.  Waring  and  Geo.  H.  Meeker,  belong 

to  Co.  C,  28th  Conn. 

"  100,  "    10,  John  H.  Searles  was  in  the  17th  Conn.,  instead  of  a  N.  Y.  Regiment. 

'•  113,  "    24,  for  Taylor,  read  Gaylvr. 

"  114,  "    28,  for  Henry,  read  William. 

"    55.  Charles  Bing,  from  Greenwich,  disch.  for  disability,  Feb.  9, 1863, 

"    57.  Hanford  Avery,  Co.  B,  6th  Conn.,  Feb,  25, 1864. 

"    72.  Andrew  Scofield,  Co.  B,  17th  Conn.,  July  30,  1862. 

"    92,  Joseph  Holmes,  Co.  B,  29th  Conn.    See  Obituary. 


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